Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Let truth be told - women do as a rule live through such humiliations, and regain their spirits, and again look about… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“you temptress,Tess; you dear damned witch of Babylon- I could not resist you as soon as I met you again.” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“In considering what Tess was not, he overlooked what she was and forgot the defective can be more than the entire” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
O, you have torn my life all to pieces... made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
It was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Never in her life – she could swear it from the bottom of her soul – had she ever intended to do… — 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
