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The quotations of

Thomas Hardy

English novelist and poet

1840–1928

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

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
Their lives were ruined, he thought; ruined by the fundamental error of their matrimonial union: that of having based a permanent contract on a temporary feeling which had no necessary connection with affinities that alone render a lifelong comradeship tolerable.
Jude the Obscure (1895), Part First: At Marygreen, Chapter XIIn context
- Marriage

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