Casterbridge Quotes

#1. Her suspense was terrible.

Thomas Hardy

#2. Eyeing her as a critic eyes a doubtful painting.

Thomas Hardy

#3. If she had not been imprudence incarnate, she would not have acted as she did when she met Henchard by accident a day or two later.

Thomas Hardy

#4. Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge.

John Irving

#5. But there were certain early days in Casterbridge- days of firmamental exhaustion which followed angry south-westerly tempests-when, if the sun shone, the air was like velvet.

Thomas Hardy

#6. Fancies find room in the strongest minds. Here, in a churchyard old as civilization, in the worst of weathers, was a strange woman of curious fascinations never seen elsewhere: there might be some devilry about her presence.

Thomas Hardy

#7. Her heart longed for some ark into which it could fly and be at rest. Rough or smooth she did not care, so long as it was warm.

Thomas Hardy

#8. And all this while the subtle-souled girl asking herself why she was born, why sitting in a room, and blinking at the candle; why things around her had taken the shape they wore in preference to every other possible shape.

Thomas Hardy

#9. A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#10. I sort of half read Thomas Hardy's 'The Mayor of Casterbridge.' It was assigned in 10th grade, and I just couldn't get into it. About seven years later, I rediscovered Hardy and consumed four of his novels in a row.

Suzanne Collins

#11. Marriage is the union of two people who arrive toting the luggage of life. And that luggage always contains sin.

Dave Harvey

#12. Like Thomas Hardy with his Casterbridge, my own fictional Pennington is based on a well-known English county town, which I embellish with buildings, parks, and houses from my imagination.

Catherine George

#13. For the most part I'll probably do floor exercise and balance beam. Those are the two things that I do.

Shannon Miller

#14. The curious double strands in Farfrae's thread of life - the commercial and the romantic - were very distinct at times. Like the colours in a variegated cord those contrasts could be seen intertwisted, yet not mingling.

Thomas Hardy

#15. For the kingdom is not being prepared, but has been prepared, while the sons of the Kingdom are being prepared, not preparing the Kingdom; that is to say, the Kingdom merits the sons, not the songs the Kingdom. So all hell merits and prepares its children rather than they it.

Martin Luther

#16. Control freak will be tortured by post power syndrome.

Toba Beta

#17. We don't just believe that God is real, but in tough circumstances we believe that he knows the way out

Sunday Adelaja

#18. The Scotchman seemed hardly the same Farfrae who had danced with her, and walked with her, in a delicate poise between love and friendship - that period in the history of a love when alone it can be said to be unalloyed with pain.

Thomas Hardy