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
“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
“There was a change in Boldwood's exterior from its former impassibleness; and his face showed that he was now living outside his… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“Yet Clare's love was doubtless ethereal to a fault, imaginative to impracticability. With these natures, corporeal presence is sometimes less appealing than… — 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
“How very lovable her face was to him. Yet there was nothing ethereal about it; all was real vitality, real warmth, real… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“Oh, it is true enough. I may as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb (an old country saying, not… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Her affection for him was now the breath and life of Tess's being; it enveloped her as a photosphere, irradiated her into… — 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
“Ideal conception, necessitated by ignorance of the person so imagined, often results in an incipient love, which otherwise would never have existed.” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Sometimes I shrink from your knowing what I have felt for you, and sometimes I am distressed that all of it you… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“At first I did not love you, Jude; that I own. When I first knew you I merely wanted you to love… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“I know women are taught by other women that they must never admit the full truth to a man. But the highest… — 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
“ 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
“Love is an utterly bygone, sorry, worn-out, miserable thing with me- for him or anyone else.” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“For the love of men like Fitzpiers is unquestionably of such quality as to bear division and transference. He had indeed once… — 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
A blaze of love and extinction, was better than a lantern glimmer of the same which should last long years. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“Theirs was that substantial affection which arises (if any arises at all) when the two who are thrown together begin first by… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“If Fancy's lips had been real cherries probably Dick's would have appeared deeply stained.” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Some women's love of being loved is insatiable; and so, often, is their love of loving; and in the last case they… — 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
