"The Mayor of Casterbridge" Quotes
A man sells his wife and daughter at a fair and later becomes the Mayor of Casterbridge, but his past comes back to haunt him.
classics | 433 pages | Published in 2008
Quotes
Character is destiny.
The best way to avoid a temptation is to yield to it.
It is safer to accept any chance that offers itself, and extemporize a procedure to fit it, than to get a good custom established.
Happiness could only be found by looking backwards.
There's nothing remarkable in our friendship; it's what everyone has who has been nearly hanged together.
A man's rank in that regard seems much operated upon by accident.
I was in the wrong to let you marry me if you had any other liking.
Looking back, the only explanation seems to be, that he had been overtaken by some supernatural excitement.
We modern inhabitants of Casterbridge can hardly credit the tales of our fathers and grandfathers.
She would not be anyone's wife; she would be his.
