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The quotations of

Thomas Hardy

English novelist and poet

1840–1928

25 quotes, most often on Love, Morality and Marriage.

A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all. Circumspection and devotion are a contradiction in terms.
The Hand of Ethelberta (1876), Ch. 20
- Love
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.
Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), Chapter IVIn context
- Love
- Marriage
“All romances end at marriage.”
Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), Chapter XLIIn context
- Love
- Marriage
In the ill-judged execution of the well-judged plan of things the call seldom produces the comer, the man to love rarely coincides with the hour for loving.
Tess of the d’Urbervilles (1891), Phase the First: The Maiden, Chapter VIn context
- Love
- Time

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