“ It was a fatal omission of Boldwood's that he had never once told her she was beautiful. Thomas Hardy
“ Idiosyncrasy and vicissitude had combined to stamp Sergeant Troy as an exceptional being. Thomas Hardy
“ Don't take on about her, Gabriel. What difference does it make whose sweetheart she is, since she can't be yours?''That's the very thing I say to myself,' said Gabriel. Thomas Hardy
“ I shall be up before you are awake; I shall be afield before you are up; and I shall have breakfasted before you are afield. In short, I shall astonish you all. Thomas Hardy
“ Let truth be told - women do as a rule live through such humiliations, and regain their spirits, and again look about them with an interested eye. While there's life there's hope is a connviction not… Thomas Hardy
“ Her heart longed for some ark into which it could fly and be at rest. Rough or smooth she did not care, so long as it was warm. Thomas Hardy
“ Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings had not darkened because of her grief, nor sickened because of her… Thomas Hardy
“ He Looked and smelt like Autumn's very brother, his face being sunburnt to wheat-colour, his eyes blue as corn-flowers, his sleeves and leggings dyed with fruit-stains, his hands clammy with the sweet… Thomas Hardy
“ Human beings, in their generous endeavour to construct a hypothesis that shall not degrade a First Cause, have always hesitated to conceive a dominant power of lower moral quality than their own; and,… Thomas Hardy
