Thomas Hardy The Mayor Of Casterbridge Quotes

#1. 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

#2. India is a democratic country & anyone can become a PM.

Narendra Modi

#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. Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aristotle.

#5. Mexican marijuana, which he called the schoolboy's consolation.

James Purdy

#6. Everything is very individual for me in the way that I work; I don't just show a rotating rack of clothes.

Brad Goreski

#7. I am always doing what I thought I couldn't do because I Thought I might learn something.
Henri Marcel French Artist

Brenda H. Sedgwick

#8. Talent - really, everyone agrees, it's multidimensional, and often overlooked in standard assessments. That's not hard for people to accept.

L. Todd Rose

#9. Christian Science ... is the direct denial both of science and of Christianity, for Science rests wholly on the recognition of truth and Christianity on the recognition of pain.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. In life the only thing that you can expect is the unexpected; the only surprise is a day that has none.

Joan Rivers

#13. We do not mature through age. We mature in awareness.

Byron Katie

#14. this book really is interesting that a soon as I got it I couldn't stop reading it.

Carolyn Hennesy

#15. Going to church will not get you the black man you seek and it never will. Page 98

Deborrah Cooper

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. The New Testament is not a historical document.

Reza Aslan

#19. 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

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

Thomas Hardy

#21. Her suspense was terrible.

Thomas Hardy

#22. I'm a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia's tap water.

Gore Vidal