HUMANITY in Classic Quotes

1  In its venerable one coat lay a certain vein of satire on human vanity in clothes.

Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 1 A Face on Which Time Makes but Little Impression

2  There no dense partition of yawns and toilets divides humanity by night from humanity by day.

Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: 2 A Lurid Light Breaks in upon a Darkened Understanding

3  We seem to want the oldest and simplest human clothing where the clothing of the earth is so primitive.

Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 1 A Face on Which Time Makes but Little Impression

4  To argue upon the possibility of culture before luxury to the bucolic world may be to argue truly, but it is an attempt to disturb a sequence to which humanity has been long accustomed.

Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: 2 The New Course Causes Disappointment

5  The new Vale of Tempe may be a gaunt waste in Thule; human souls may find themselves in closer and closer harmony with external things wearing a sombreness distasteful to our race when it was young.

Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 1 A Face on Which Time Makes but Little Impression

6  Anyone who had stood by now would have pitied her, not so much on account of her exposure to weather, and isolation from all of humanity except the mouldered remains inside the tumulus; but for that other form of misery which was denoted by the slightly rocking movement that her feelings imparted to her person.

Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: 7 The Night of the Sixth of November