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
It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in a language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied soul of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“But you will never realize that an incident which filled but a degree in the circle of your thoughts covered the whole… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
He wished she knew his impressions, but he would as soon as thought of carrying an odour in a net as of… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Their position was perhaps the happiest of all positions in the social scale, being above the line at which neediness ends, and… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
They spoke very little of their mutual feeling; pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
That one true heart was left behind! What feeling do we ever find, to equal among human kind , a dog's fidelity! — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
This good fellowship - camaraderie - usually occurring through the similarity of pursuits is unfortunately seldom super-added to love between the sexes,… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
He wished she knew his impressions; but he would as soon have thought of carrying an odour in a net as of… — 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
