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Men Quotes by Thomas Hardy
- The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
- It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
- The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are…
- In the ill-judged execution of the well-judged plan of things the call seldom produces the comer, the man to love rarely coincides with the hour…
- Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.
- Remember that the best and greatest among mankind are those who do themselves no worldly good. Every successful man is more or less a selfish…
- Everybody must be managed. Queens must be managed. Kings must be managed, for men want managing almost as much as women, and that's saying a…
- Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?
- Why it was that upon this beautiful feminine tissue, sensitive as gossamer, and practically blank as snow as yet, there should have been traced such…
- It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible…
- Men thin away to insignificance and oblivion quite as often by not making the most of good spirits when they have them as by lacking…
- She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, hated at tea parties, feared in shops,…
- ...Nameless, unknown to me as you were, I couldn't forget your voice!' 'For how long?' 'O - ever so long. Days and days.' 'Days and…
- Sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonized at the thought of treating a man…
- --the ethereal, fine-nerved, sensitive girl, quite unfitted by temperament and instinct to fulfil the conditions of the matrimonial relation with Phillotson, possibly with scarce any…
- Always wanting another man than your own.
- In the ill-judged execution of the well-judged plan of things the call seldom produces the comer, the man to love rarely coincides with the hour…
- This good fellowship - camaraderie - usually occurring through the similarity of pursuits is unfortunately seldom super-added to love between the sexes, because men and…
- What is it, Angel?" she said, starting up. "Have they come for me?" "Yes, dearest," he said. "They have come." "It is as it should…
- It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in a language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
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