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Quotes from The Mayor of Casterbridge — Thomas Hardy

1840–1928 England

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She had the hard, half-apathetic expression of one who deems anything possible at the hands of Time and Chance except, perhaps, fair play.

The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886)

One grievous failing of Elizabeth’s was her occasional pretty and picturesque use of dialect words—those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.

The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886)

And all her shining keys will be took from her, and her cupboards opened; and little things a' didn't wish seen, anybody will see; and her wishes and ways will all be as nothing!

The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886)

Who is such a reprobate as I! And yet it seems that even I be in Somebody's hand!

The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886)

But the ingenious machinery contrived by the Gods for reducing human possibilities of amelioration to a minimum — which arranges that wisdom to do shall come pari passu with the departure of zest for doing — stood in the way of all that.

The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886)

That Elizabeth-Jane Farfrae be not told of my death, or made to grieve on account of me. And that I be not bury'd in consecrated ground. And that no sexton be asked to toll the bell. And that nobody is wished to see my dead body. And that no murners walk behind me at my funeral. And that no flours be planted on my grave. And that no man remember me.

The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886)

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