Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbe Quotes

A collection of quotes by Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbe.

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) was an English novelist and poet, renowned for his works set in the fictional county of Wessex. Born in Dorset, Hardy initially pursued a career in architecture before turning to writing. His novels, including Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891), explored themes of fate, social class, and the changing rural landscape. Tess of the d'Urbervilles, considered one of Hardy's masterpieces, tells the tragic story of a young woman from a humble background who is seduced and abandoned by a wealthy gentleman. Hardy's works often challenged Victorian moral conventions and were known for their realistic portrayal of rural life.

There was no exaggeration in Marian's definition of Flintcomb-Ash farm as a starve-acre place. The single fat thing on the soil was Marian herself; and she was an importation. Of the three classes of village, the village cared for by its lord, the village cared for by itself, and the village uncared for either by itself or by its lord (in other words, the village of a resident squires's tenantry, the village of free or copy-holders, and the absentee-owner's village, farmed with the land) this place, Flintcomb-Ash, was the third. But Tess set to work. Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity, was now no longer a minor feature in Mrs Angel Clare; and it sustained her.

Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbe

Patience