# Far From The Madding Crowd

- Author: [Thomas Hardy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hardy.md)
- Quotes: 8
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hardy/far-from-the-madding-crowd

## Quotes

> It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

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> And at home by the fire, whenever you look up, there I shall be — and whenever I look up, there will be you.

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> A nice unparticular man.

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> The sovereign brilliancy of Sirius pierced the eye with a steely glitter, the star called Capella was yellow, Aldebaran and Betelgueux shone with a fiery red. To persons standing alone on a hill during a clear midnight such as this, the roll of the world eastward is almost a palpable movement.

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> To find themselves utterly alone at night where company is desirable and expected makes some people fearful; but a case more trying by far to the nerves is to discover some mysterious companionship when intuition, sensation, memory, analogy, testimony, probability, induction — every kind of evidence in the logician's list — have united to persuade consciousness that it is quite in isolation.

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> All romances end at marriage.

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> Or, to state his character as it stood in the scale of public opinion, when his friends and critics were in tantrums, he was considered rather a bad man; when they were pleased, he was rather a good man; when they were neither, he was a man whose moral colour was a kind of pepper-and-salt mixture.

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> Love is a possible strength, in an actual weakness. Marriage transforms a distraction into a support, the power of which should be, and happily often is, in direct proportion to the degree of imbecility it supplants.

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