“ ...the social mould civilization fits us into have no more relation to our actual shapes than the conventional shapes of the constellations have to the real star-patterns. I am called Mrs. Richard Phi… Thomas Hardy
“ Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle. Thomas Hardy
“ You have never loved me as I love you--never--never! Yours is not a passionate heart--your heart does not burn in a flame! You are, upon the whole, a sort of fay, or sprite-- not a woman! Thomas Hardy
“ Why, you make anyone think that loving is a thing that can be done and undone, and put on and put off at a mere whim. Thomas Hardy
“ Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened. Thomas Hardy
“ They spoke very little of their mutual feeling; pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends. Theirs was that substantial affection which arises (if any ar… Thomas Hardy
“ The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses; its true history lay, not among things done, but among things willed. Thomas Hardy
“ So each had a private little sun for her soul to bask in; some dream, some affection, some hobby, or at least some remote and distant hope.... Thomas Hardy
“ She heard footsteps brushing the grass, and had a consciousnesss that love was encircling her like a perfume. Thomas Hardy
“ O, you have torn my life all to pieces... made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again! Thomas Hardy
“ 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 for loving Thomas Hardy
“ 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 for loving. Nature does not often say See! to her poor… Thomas Hardy
“ He wished she knew his impressions, but he would as soon as thought of carrying an odour in a net as of attempting to convey the intangibles of his feeling in the coarse meshes of language. So he rema… Thomas Hardy
“ By experience, says Roger Ascham, we find out a short way by a long wandering. Not seldom that long wandering unfits us for further travel, and of what use is our experience to us then? Thomas Hardy
“ But you will never realize that an incident which filled but a degree in the circle of your thoughts covered the whole circumference of mine. No person can see exactly what and where another's horizon… Thomas Hardy
“ She moved about in a mental cloud of many-coloured idealities, which eclipsed all sinister contingencies by its brightness. Thomas Hardy
