Quotes About The Mayor Of Casterbridge

#1. 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

#2. Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge.

John Irving

#3. 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

#4. Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.

Heinrich Heine

#5. Often the desire to appear competent impedes our ability to become competent, because we more anxious to display our knowledge than to learn what we do not know.

Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...

#6. 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

#7. I was a very violent kid. I think movies and writing and art have been a way of channeling this.

Xavier Dolan

#8. It is certainly a good thing always to forgive with generosity, but it is no doubt just never to forget the wrongs received: they belong to the route that leads to inner maturity.

Fausto Cercignani

#9. No one, even as a joke, could call a member of the all-Union Communist Party a Neo-Hegelian, a Neo-Kantian, a Subjectivist, an Agnostic, or, God forbid, a Revisionist. But "epicurean" sounded so harmless it could not possibly imply that one was not an orthodox Marxist.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. Love is a tidal wave--not because it sweeps you off your feet, but because it pulls you down and drowns you.

Samantha Van Leer

#14. If my life were like the novels, this would be the dark period in act two after my one true love rejects me, where I reel off to do things I have to apologize for in act three.

Julio Alexi Genao

#15. 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

#16. I tried several times to get the song right. The tune and the chords that I started with, there really wasn't anywhere else it could go. I stopped fighting it and let it take me away.

Nik Kershaw

#17. I'm going to work with the Senate and the House to make sure we have a bill that lowers tuition for all Floridians.

Rick Scott

#18. I turned to the clarinets. They were a resourceful lot.

Jennifer Echols

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

Thomas Hardy

#20. I don't like scary movies (laughs).

Erislandy Lara

#21. Her suspense was terrible.

Thomas Hardy