Far Madding Quotes

#1. I think the woman was born in Far Madding in a thunderstorm. She probably told the thunder to be quiet. It probably did.

Robert Jordan

#2. 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

#3. I've never known anyone who was saved who did not first save herself.

Wendy Wunder

#4. 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

#5. I embrace everybody, but you work everybody and each song at a time to who it is for. I believe that's how you build a palace. You build a palace one block at a time and then you'll have what you want. That's how it goes.

B.J. The Chicago Kid

#6. It ain't about your good or bad intentions, you just look so different.

Toba Beta

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

A.E. Coppard

#8. [Could] motor cars could be produced [in a country like Germany] and sold in competition in the American market ... In my opinion it is impossible to reach the conclusion that competition from without can ever be any factor whatsoever?

Alfred P. Sloan

#9. 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

#10. We can never intimidate and discourage the people who voice their words with courage. The essence of freedom rests precisely here - in the freedom of expression of the people. And we must protect it.

Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. I don't think it's good in any business for anyone to have a monopoly. On the other hand, you need to have size to get costs down.

Rick Scott

#14. The Cubists used the figure, but they broke it up..

Mark Tobey

#15. 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

#16. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.

Bertrand Russell

#17. But how to raise a sum in the different States has been my greatest difficulty.

Robert Fulton

#18. Let me say no danger and no hardship ever makes me wish to get back to that college life again.

Joshua Chamberlain

#19. I can't build myself by beating somebody down.

Bernie Mac

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

Thomas Hardy

#21. The self is a
self-made
Procrustean bed
of little comfort

Ulf Wolf

#22. Small hopes can grow surprising fruit.

Robert Jordan

#23. Liraz was special. Specially antisocial. Spectacularly, even.

Laini Taylor

#24. 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

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

Thomas Hardy

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. 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

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

Thomas Hardy

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

Thomas Gray

#31. building in there? Coffins. Lots and lots

Rhys Bowen

#32. Arms on armour clashing bray'd Horrible discord, and the madding wheels Of brazen chariots rag'd: dire was the noise Of conflict.

John Milton

#33. 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

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

Thomas Hardy

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

Thomas Hardy

#36. Love is divine force of existence.

Lailah Gifty Akita