Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does… — 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
He's charmed by her as if she were some fairy!" continued Arabella. "See how he looks round at her, and lets his… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
The beggarly question of parentage--what is it, after all? What does it matter, when you come to think of it, whether a… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonized at the thought of… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Somebody might have come along that way who would have asked him his trouble, and might have cheered him by saying that… — 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
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
