“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
“It being the first time in his life that he had touched female fingers under water, Dick duly registered the sensation as… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“There was a change in Boldwood's exterior from its former impassibleness; and his face showed that he was now living outside his… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“On a Fine Morning” in Poems of the Past and the Present (1901) WHENCE comes Solace?--Not from seeing What is doing, suffering,… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“Like a greater than himself, to the critical question at the critical time he did not answer: and they were again silent.” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“Nature does not often say 'See?' to her poor creature at a time when seeing can lead to happy doing; or reply… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
The beggarly question of parentage--what is it, after all? What does it matter, when you come to think of it, whether a… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“Moreover to light a fire is the instinctive and resistant act of man when, at the winter ingress, the curfew is sounded… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“That innate love of melody, which she had inherited from her ballad-singing mother, gave the simplest music a power which could well-nigh… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
He knelt and bent lower, till her breath warmed his face, and in a moment his cheek was in contact with hers.… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“The flowers in the bride’s hand are sadly like the garland which decked the heifers of sacrifice in old times!” “Still, Sue,… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“I've been troubled with weak moments lately, 'tis true. I've been drinky once this month already, and I did not go to… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“...a true narrative like time and tide must run its course and would respect no man.” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“It has been sometimes argued that there is no truer criterion of the vitality of any given art-period than the power of… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“She had the hard, half-apathetic expression of one who deems anything possible at the hands of time and chance, except perhaps fair… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“But you shouldn't have let her. That's the only way with these fanciful women that chaw high--innocent or guilty. She'd have come… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“They did not vary their partners if their inclination were to stick to previous ones.Changing partners simply meant that a satisfactory choice… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Don't think of what's past!" said she. "I am not going to think outside of now. Why should we! Who knows what… — 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
Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“He had just reached the time of life at which 'young' is ceasing to be the prefix of 'man' in speaking of… — 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
“the marginal minute of the dark when the grove is still mute, save for one prophetic bird who sings with a clear-voiced… — 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
