Thomas Hardy Quote

The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses; its true history lay, not among things done, but among things willed.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891)

The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses; its true history lay, not among things done,...

The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses; its true history lay, not among things done,...

The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses; its true history lay, not among things done,...

The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses; its true history lay, not among things done,...