Madding Quotes

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

Thomas Gray

#2. 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

#3. 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

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

A.E. Coppard

#6. 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

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

Thomas Hardy

#8. One has the right to be wrong in a democracy.

Claude Pepper

#9. The face of Truth is hidden behind the golden veil of maya, says the Upanishad.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Thomas Hardy

#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. Follow your bliss. Do the thing where you sit down at 8 a.m. and then you realize you're hungry and you look up and it's 10 p.m. If you can find something you love that much, it doesn't matter what you do.

George Lucas

#13. They all knew my name, but no one heard the music - I didn't look the same.

Ricky Nelson

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. Nothing is a greater stranger to my breast, or a sin that my soul more abhors, than that black and detestable one, ingratitude.

George Washington

#17. 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

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

Thomas Hardy

#20. 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

#21. That's what's happening... zombies are out... but in hour movie... not in series.

Deyth Banger

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

Thomas Hardy

#23. As a general rule, people disappoint you as you know them.

Maria Mitchell

#24. 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

#25. 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

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

Thomas Hardy

#27. 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

#28. I am not a fairy godmother or anything of that sort, but I hope to give you a happy home and a good education, and to send you out into the world true, brave, generous men, prepared to serve God truly all the days of your life."
~Aunt Persis

Constance Savery

#29. Small hopes can grow surprising fruit.

Robert Jordan

#30. Teddy had taken his shirt off and had streaked himself with mud. Dad said he looked like one of the boys from Lord of the Flies.

Gayle Forman

#31. Unlike people of my generation, my children and my grandchildren have grown up living with, knowing, people who were outwardly gay and lesbian. And they have learned that they're just like us ... And when you see that they're just like us, the rationale for discrimination melts away.

David Boies