“Don't love too blindly: blindly you will love if you love at all, but a little care is still possible to a… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Once let a maiden admit the possibility of her being stricken with love for some one at a certain hour and place,… — 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
“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
So each had a private little sun for her soul to bask in; some dream, some affection, some hobby, or at least… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“O, how I wish I had never seen him! Loving is misery for women always.” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“As to our going on together as we were going, in a sort of friendly way, the people round us would have… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“Half an hour afterwards Dick emerged from the inn, and if Fancy's lips had been real cherries, probably Dick's would have appeared… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“What then? Joy-jaunts, impassioned flings, Love and its ecstasy, Will always have been great things, great things to me!” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“there was the record of a pulsing life which had learnt too well, for its years, of the dust and ashes of… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“The man to love rarely coincides with the hour for loving. Nature does not often say "See!" to her poor creature at… — 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
Of love it may be said, the less earthly the less demonstrative. In its absolutely indestructible form it reaches a profundity in… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“Love is faith, and faith, like a gathered flower, will live on a long time after nutriment has ceased” — 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
“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
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
“It takes two or three generations to do what I tried to do in one; and my impulses--affections--vices perhaps they should be… — 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
“but she remained more or less and ideal character, about whose form he began to weave curious and fantastic day-dreams.” — 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
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
“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
