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“Pourquoi ne m'avez-vous pas dit qu'il y avait du danger avec les hommes?"
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Thomas Hardy: Citations en anglais
“Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.”
Source: The Mayor of Casterbridge
“Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.”
Source: The Personal Notebooks Of Thomas Hardy
Variante: When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.
Source: Tess of the D'Urbervilles
“Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?”
Source: The Return of the Native
Source: Tess of the D'Urbervilles
“All romances end at marriage.”
Source: Far from the Madding Crowd
Source: The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), Ch. 45 (last lines)
" The Going http://www.poetryconnection.net/poets/Thomas_Hardy/2716" (1912), lines 38-42, from Satires of Circumstance (1914)
Variante: They spoke very little of their mutual feelings: pretty phrases and warm attentions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.
Source: Far from the Madding Crowd
" In Time of 'The Breaking Of Nations'" http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/hardy/poems/breaking.html (1915), lines 1-12, from Moments of Vision (1917); the title is derived from lines of Jeremiah 51:20: "Thou art my battle ax and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations."
Contexte: p>Only a man harrowing clods
In a slow silent walk
With an old horse that stumbles and nods
Half asleep as they stalk.Only thin smoke without flame
From the heaps of couch-grass;
Yet this will go onward the same
Though Dynasties pass.Yonder a maid and her wight
Come whispering by:
War's annals will cloud into night
Ere their story die.</p
“War's annals will cloud into night
Ere their story die.”
" In Time of 'The Breaking Of Nations'" http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/hardy/poems/breaking.html (1915), lines 1-12, from Moments of Vision (1917); the title is derived from lines of Jeremiah 51:20: "Thou art my battle ax and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations."
Contexte: p>Only a man harrowing clods
In a slow silent walk
With an old horse that stumbles and nods
Half asleep as they stalk.Only thin smoke without flame
From the heaps of couch-grass;
Yet this will go onward the same
Though Dynasties pass.Yonder a maid and her wight
Come whispering by:
War's annals will cloud into night
Ere their story die.</p
“Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?”
Source: Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Source: Tess of the D'Urbervilles
“Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks…”
Source: Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Source: Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), Ch. 4 (Gabriel Oak, proposing to Bathsheba Everdene)
