If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“It is the effect of marriage to engender in several directions some of the reserve it annihilates in one.” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“It is never too late to break off a marriage that’s distasteful to you. ” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Well, what I mean is that I shouldn't mind being a bride at a wedding, if I could be one without having… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“Well, what I mean is that I shouldn’t mind being a bride at a wedding, if I could be one without having… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness. Marriage transforms a distraction into a support, the power of which should be,… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“When you've made up your mind to marry, take the first respectable body that comes to hand- she's as good as any… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage… — 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
To dance with a man is to concentrate a twelvemonth's regulation fire upon him in the fragment of an hour. To pass… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“I have been looking at the marriage service in the Prayer-book, and it seems to me very humiliating that a giver-away should… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“I am certain one ought to be allowed to undo what one has done so ignorantly ! I daresay it happens to… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“The flowers in the bride’s hand are sadly like the garland which decked the heifers of sacrifice in old times!” “Still, Sue,… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“A story must be exceptional enough to justify its telling. We storytellers are all ancient mariners, and none of us is justified… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“...it is foreign to a man's nature to go on loving a person when he is told that he must and shall… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“This night the woman of his belittling deprecations was thinking how great and good her husband was. But over them both there… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“Life with a man is more businesslike after it, and money matters work better. And then, you see, if you have rows,… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
I can make you happy, said he to the back of her head, across the bush. You shall have a piano in… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
I. At Tea THE kettle descants in a cosy drone, And the young wife looks in her husband's face, And then in… — 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
