“... we know very well women scarcely ever jilt men; ‘tis men who jilt us.” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“How would you draw the line between women with something and women with nothing in them?” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“Women are never tired of bewailing man’s fickleness in love, but they only seem to snub his constancy.” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel? — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer? — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
The only superiority in women that is tolerable to therival sex is, as a rule, that of the unconscious kind; but a… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“Women were different from men in such matters. Was it that they were, instead of more sensitive, as reputed, more callous, and… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“She showed that oblique-mannered softness which is perhaps more frequent in women of darker complexion and more lymphatic temperament than Mrs. Charmond’s… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“An average woman is in this superior to an average man—that she never instigates, only responds.” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“He grew away from old associations, and saw something new in life and humanity. Secondarily, he made close acquaintance with phenomena which he had… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share
“She was in a sound sleep, Jude, dying of anxiety lest she should have caught a chill which might permanently injure her, was glad… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share
Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share
You could sometimes see her twelfth year in her cheeks, or her ninth sparkling from her eyes; and even her fifth would flit over… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share
“It was mid-May time, bringing with it weather not, perhaps, quite so blooming as that assumed to be natural to the month by the… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share
Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share
“I was court-martialed in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share
“It being the first time in his life that he had touched female fingers under water, Dick duly registered the sensation as rather a… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share
“As soon as she could discern the outline of the house, it had all its old effect upon Tess's imagination. Part of her body… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share
The perfect woman, you see [is] a working-woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who [uses] her hands and her head… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share
“The Sinister Spirit sneered: 'It had to be!' And again the Spirit of Pity whispered, 'Why?” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share
“Justice” was done, and the President of the Immortals (in Aeschylean phrase) had ended his sport with Tess.” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share
