Far From The Madding Crowd Quotes

#1. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife.

Thomas Gray

#2. Far from the madding crowd is a mistake on a honeymoon ... Solitude! Wherever you are, if you're on a honeymoon, you'll get quite as much solitude as is good for you every twenty-four hours. Constant change and distraction
that's what wants arranging for. Solitude will arrange itself.

Arnold Bennett

#3. To be far from the madding crowd is to be mad indeed.

A.E. Coppard

#4. Katniss Everdeen owes her last name to Bathsheba Everdene, the lead character in 'Far From the Madding Crowd.' The two are very different, but both struggle with knowing their hearts.

Suzanne Collins

#5. Leaders don't try to make people unhappy. However, leaders just know, progress is always preceded by change." "And some people don't like change,

Mark Miller

#6. The petty cares, the minute anxieties, the infinite littles which go to make up the sum of human experience, like the invisible granules of powder, give the last and highest polish to a character.

William Matthews

#7. It was a fatal omission of Boldwood's that he had never once told her she was beautiful.

Thomas Hardy

#8. The difference between love and respect was markedly shown in her conduct. Bathsheba had spoken of her interest in Boldwood with the greatest freedom to Liddy, but she only communed with her own heart concerning Troy.

Thomas Hardy

#9. During our first date,
I wanted to hold your hand so bad
I almost cut mine off
and threw it at you
to see if you would catch it

Colin Gilbert

#10. There is history to read- centuries to comprehend before I sleep, millions of lives to assimilate before breakfast tomorrow.

Sylvia Plath

#11. In the case of the environment, there's no one to bail it out.

Noam Chomsky

#12. During my school and college days, the three Khans - Aamir, Salman and Shah Rukh - were superstars for me and will always be. Their movies were eagerly awaited every Friday.

Shahid Kapoor

#13. I shall be up before you are awake; I shall be afield before you are up; and I shall have breakfasted before you are afield. In short, I shall astonish you all.

Thomas Hardy

#14. There are considerations even before my consideration for you; reparations to be made-ties you know nothing of. If you repent of marrying, so do I.

Thomas Hardy

#15. I'm loved unconditionally, for no other reason than simply because I exist.

Anita Moorjani

#16. Don't take on about her, Gabriel. What difference does it make whose sweetheart she is, since she can't be yours?'
'That's the very thing I say to myself,' said Gabriel.

Thomas Hardy

#17. Someone who works only for the money will give you trouble one day because of money.

Jin Sun Mi

#18. The sky was clear
remarkably clear
and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.

Thomas Hardy

#19. God does not need to receive, but humans need to give." My

Robert T. Kiyosaki

#20. This supreme instance of Troy's goodness fell upon Gabriel's ears like the thirteenth stroke of a crazy clock.

Thomas Hardy

#21. You know, mistress, that I love you, and shall love you always

Thomas Hardy

#22. He can blow the flute very well-that 'a can,' said a young married man, who having no individuality worth mentioning was known as 'Susan Tall's husband.

Thomas Hardy

#23. The whole school was in shock when he died.
Just six months earlier,
another guy from school died.
Everyone went on about too much tragedy.
Want to know about tragedy?
Come to my house.
A year later, tragedy is still here.
Every damn day, it's here.

Lisa Schroeder

#24. But you are too lovely even to care to be kind as others are.

Thomas Hardy

#25. He had been held to her by a beautiful thread which it pained him to spoil by breaking, rather than by a chain he could not break.

Thomas Hardy

#26. Artistic judgments are silly if expressed as dogmas, at least until we get an "artometer" which can measure objectively how many micro-michelangelos or kilo-homers of genius a given artifact has in it.

Robert Anton Wilson

#27. Folk are just folk, wherever you go, and it's only a nasty sort of person who thinks a body's a devil just because they come from another country and have different notions

Catherynne M Valente

#28. He was moderately truthful towards men, but to women lied like a Cretan-a system of ethics above all others calculated to win popularity at the first flush of admission into lively society.

Thomas Hardy

#29. Idiosyncrasy and vicissitude had combined to stamp Sergeant Troy as an exceptional being.

Thomas Hardy

#30. Men thin away to insignificance and oblivion quite as often by not making the most of good spirits when they have them as by lacking good spirits when they are indispensable.

Thomas Hardy

#31. Do you want to know yourself better? Then discover silence.

Pope Benedict XVI

#32. A woman can lend a man the strength to conquer a kingdom, and bring him to his knees with one breath.

Brandy Nacole