“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
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
“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
“Women are never tired of bewailing man’s fickleness in love, but they only seem to snub his constancy.” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“love, life and everything human seemed small and trifling in such close juxtaposition with an infuriated universe'. (p.309)” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“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
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
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
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
“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
“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
