“It was mid-May time, bringing with it weather not, perhaps, quite so blooming as that assumed to be natural to the month… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel? — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
It was that period in the vernal quarter when we may suppose the Dryads to be waking for the season. The vegetable… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
I may do some good before I am dead--be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do;… — 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
People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly… — 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
To have lost is less disturbing than to wonder if we may possibly have won; and Eustacia could now, like other people… — 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
“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
