Frases de Thomas Hardy (197 citas)

Variante: When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.
Fuente: Tess of the D'Urbervilles

“Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.”

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Thomas Hardy

Fuente: Tess of the D'Urbervilles

“Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks…”

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Thomas Hardy

Fuente: Tess of the D'Urbervilles

“Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?”

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Thomas Hardy libro The Return of the Native

Fuente: The Return of the Native

“If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.”

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Fuente: Tess of the D'Urbervilles

“My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.”

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Fuente: Tess of the D'Urbervilles

“Her affection for him was now the breath and life of Tess's being; it enveloped her as a photosphere, irradiated her into forgetfulness of her past sorrows, keeping back the gloomy spectres that would persist in their attempts to touch her—doubt, fear, moodiness, care, shame. She knew that they were waiting like wolves just outside the circumscribing light, but she had long spells of power to keep them in hungry subjection there.”

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Thomas Hardy

Fuente: Tess of the D'Urbervilles

“All romances end at marriage.”

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Thomas Hardy libro Lejos del mundanal ruido

Fuente: Far from the Madding Crowd

“She was at that modulating point between indifference and love, at the stage called having a fancy for. It occurs once in the history of the most gigantic passions, and it is a period when they are in the hands of the weakest will.”

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Thomas Hardy libro The Return of the Native

Fuente: The Return of the Native

“Her strong sense that neither she nor any human being deserved less than was given, did not blind her to the fact that there were others receiving less who had deserved much more. And in being forced to class herself among the fortunate she did not cease to wonder at the persistence of the unforeseen, when the one to whom such unbroken tranquility had been accorded in the adult stage was she whose youth had seemed to teach that happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.”

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Thomas Hardy libro The Mayor of Casterbridge

Fuente: The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), Ch. 45 (last lines)

“To dwell on a heath without studying its meanings was like wedding a foreigner without learning his tongue. The subtle beauties of the heath were lost to Eustacia; she only caught its vapours. An environment which would have made a contented woman a poet, a suffering woman a devotee, a pious woman a psalmist, even a giddy woman thoughtful, made a rebellious woman saturnine.”

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Thomas Hardy libro The Return of the Native

Bk. I, ch. 7
The Return of the Native (1878)

“I seem but a dead man held on end
To sink down soon…. O you could not know
That such swift fleeing
No soul foreseeing —
Not even I — would undo me so!”

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" The Going http://www.poetryconnection.net/poets/Thomas_Hardy/2716" (1912), lines 38-42, from Satires of Circumstance (1914)

“A well proportioned mind is one which shows no particular bias; one of which we may safely say that it will never cause its owner to be confined as a madman, tortured as a heretic, or crucified as a blasphemer. Also, on the other hand, that it will never cause him to be applauded as a prophet, revered as a priest, or exalted as a king. Its usual blessings are happiness and mediocrity.”

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Thomas Hardy libro The Return of the Native

Bk. III, ch. 2
The Return of the Native (1878)

“They spoke very little of their mutual feeling; pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.”

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Thomas Hardy libro Lejos del mundanal ruido

Variante: They spoke very little of their mutual feelings: pretty phrases and warm attentions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.
Fuente: Far from the Madding Crowd

“Only a man harrowing clods
In a slow silent walk
With an old horse that stumbles and nods
Half asleep as they stalk.”

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" In Time of 'The Breaking Of Nations'" http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/hardy/poems/breaking.html (1915), lines 1-12, from Moments of Vision (1917); the title is derived from lines of Jeremiah 51:20: "Thou art my battle ax and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations." Contexto: p>Only a man harrowing clods In a slow silent walk With an old horse that stumbles and nods Half asleep as they stalk.Only thin smoke without flame From the heaps of couch-grass; Yet this will go onward the same Though Dynasties pass.Yonder a maid and her wight Come whispering by: War's annals will cloud into night Ere their story die.</p

“A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all. Circumspection and devotion are a contradiction in terms.”

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Thomas Hardy libro The Hand of Ethelberta

The Hand of Ethelberta (1876), ch. 20

“War's annals will cloud into night
Ere their story die.”

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“It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.”

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Thomas Hardy libro Lejos del mundanal ruido

Fuente: Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), Ch. 51

“People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's pleasure with a life's discomfort.”