“ I think astronomy is a bad study for you. It makes you feel human insignificance too plainly. Thomas Hardy
“ And at home by the fire, whenever you look up there I shall be— and whenever I look up, there will be you. -Gabriel Oak Thomas Hardy
“ [She] soon perceived that as she walked in the flock, sometimes with this one, sometimes with that, that the fresh night air was producing staggerings and serpentine courses among the men who had part… Thomas Hardy
“ You could sometimes see her twelfth year in her cheeks, or her ninth sparkling from her eyes; and even her fifth would flit over the curves of her mouth now and then. Thomas Hardy
“ You are Joseph the dreamer of dreams, dear Jude.And a tragic Don Quixote. And sometimes you are St. Stephen, who, while theywere stoning him, could see Heaven opened. Oh, my poor friend and comrade,yo… Thomas Hardy
“ Well, what I mean is that I shouldn't mind being a bride at a wedding, if I could be one without having a husband. Thomas Hardy
“ This night the woman of his belittling deprecations was thinking how great and good her husband was. But over them both there hung a deeper shade than the shade which Angel Clare perceived, namely, th… Thomas Hardy
“ The intentions as to reading, working, and learning, which he had so precisely formulated only a few minutes earlier, were suffering a curious collapse into a corner, he knew not how. Thomas Hardy
“ The Man He KilledHad he and I but met By some old ancient inn,We should have set us down to wet Right many a nipperkin! But ranged as infantry, And staring face to face,I shot at him as he at me, And… Thomas Hardy
“ She's brim full of poetry - actualized poetry, if I may use the expression. She lives what paper-poets only write... Thomas Hardy
“ She was yawning, and he saw the red interior of her mouth as if it had been a snake’s. She had stretched one arm so high above her coiled-up cable of hair that he could see its satin delicacy above th… Thomas Hardy
“ Or, to state his character as it stood in the scale of public opinion, when his friends and critics were in tantrums, he was considered rather a bad man; when they were pleased, he was rather a good m… Thomas Hardy
“ How strange and god-like was a composer's power, who from the grave could lead through sequences of emotion, which he alone had felt at first, a girl like her who had never heard of his name, and neve… Thomas Hardy
“ Her companion, also in black, appeared as a well-formed young woman about 18, completely possessed of that ephemeral precious essence youth, which is itself beauty, irrespective of complexion or conto… Thomas Hardy
“ He waited day after day, saying that it was perfectly absurd to expect, yet expecting. Thomas Hardy
“ He is a sort of steady man in a wild way, you know. That's better than to be as some are, wild in a steady way. I am afraid that's how I am. Thomas Hardy
“ Do you know that I have undergone three quarters of this labour entirely for the sake of the fourth quarter? Thomas Hardy
