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The quotations of

Thomas Hardy

English novelist and poet

1840–1928

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

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons!
Jude the Obscure (1895), Pt. VI, ch. IIIIn context
- Morality
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.
Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), Chapter IIn context
- Character
- Morality
I am in a chaos of principles⁠—groping in the dark⁠—acting by instinct and not after example. Eight or nine years ago when I came here first, I had a neat stock of fixed opinions, but they dropped away one by one; and the further I get the less sure I am.
Jude the Obscure (1895), Part Sixth: At Christminster Again, Chapter IIn context
- Experience
- Morality

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