“Why, you make anyone think that loving is a thing that can be done and undone, and put on and put off… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
You overrate my capacity of love. I don't posess half the warmth of nature you believe me to have. An unprotected childhood… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“Half an hour afterwards Dick emerged from the inn, and if Fancy's lips had been real cherries, probably Dick's would have appeared… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“We discern a grand force in the lover which he lacks whilst a free man, but there is a breadth of vision… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Once let a maiden admit the possibility of her being stricken with love for some one at a certain hour and place,… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“That innate love of melody, which she had inherited from her ballad-singing mother, gave the simplest music a power which could well-nigh… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“I have sometimes thought--that under the affectation of independent views you are as enslaved to the social code as any woman I… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
You have never loved me as I love you--never--never! Yours is not a passionate heart--your heart does not burn in a flame!… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“If men only knew the staleness of the freshest of us! that nine times out of ten the "first love" they think… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
In the ill-judged execution of the well-judged plan of things the call seldom produces the comer, the man to love rarely coincides… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“To sorrow I bade good morrow, And thought to leave her far away behind; But cheerly, cheerly, She loves me dearly; She… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
It may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting out of love as there is for getting in.… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
She was at that modulating point between indifference and love, at the stage called having a fancy for. It occurs once in… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“And as each and all of them were warmed without by the sun, so each had a private little sun for her… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
To be loved to madness--such was her great desire. Love was to her the one cordial which could drive away the eating… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“She felt powerless to withstand or deny him. He was altogether too much for her, and Bathsheba seemed as one who, facing… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“ Hap If but some vengeful god would call to me From up the sky, and laugh: “Thou suffering thing, Know that… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“There was hardly a touch of earth in her love for Clare. To her sublime trustfulness he was all that goodness could… — 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
