Well, what I mean is that I shouldn't mind being a bride at a wedding, if I could be one without having… — 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
“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
“When you've made up your mind to marry, take the first respectable body that comes to hand- she's as good as any… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“Every woman who makes a permanent impression on a man is afterwards recalled to his mind's eye as she appeared in one… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Why should a man's mind have been thrown into such close, sad, sensational, inexplicable relations with such a precarious object as his… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“You would hardly think, at first, that horrid monsters lie up there waiting to be discovered by any moderately penetrating mind--monsters to… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“I don't--know about ghosts, but I do know that our souls can be made to go outside our bodies when we are… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“She was in the mood for sounds of every kind now, and strained her ears to catch the faintest, in wayward enmity… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
...she moved about in a mental cloud of many-coloured idealities, which eclipsed all sinister contingencies by its brightness. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“She knew how to hit to a hair's breadth that moment of evening when the light and the darkness are so evenly… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“ideas are so elastic in a human brain, that they have no constant measure which may be called their actual bulk. Any… — 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
