“ 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 round in time. We all do! Custom does it! It's all the same in the end… Thomas Hardy
“ She went indoors in that peculiar state of misery which is not exactly grief, and which especially attends the dawnings of reason in the latter days of an ill-judged, transient love. To be conscious t… Thomas Hardy
“ I look into my glass,And view my wasting skin,And say, 'Would God it came to passMy heart had shrunk as thin! Thomas Hardy
“ The next morning, when Thomasin withdrew the curtains of her bedroom window, there stood the Maypole in the middle of the greek, its top cutting into the sky. It had sprung up in the night. or rather… Thomas Hardy
“ The curious double strands in Farfrae's thread of life - the commercial and the romantic - were very distinct at times. Like the colours in a variegated cord those contrasts could be seen intertwisted… Thomas Hardy
“ Some of the most passionately erotic poets have been the most self-contained in their daily lives. Thomas Hardy
“ What a strange sort of love, to be entirely free from that quality of selfishness which is frequently the chief constituent of the passion, and sometimes it's only one! Thomas Hardy
“ This supreme instance of Troy's goodness fell upon Gabriel's ears like the thirteenth stroke of a crazy clock. Thomas Hardy
“ He is as good as anybody in this parish! He is very particular, too, about going to church-yes, he is!''I am afeard nobody ever saw him there. I never did, certainly.''The reason of that is,' she said… Thomas Hardy
“ Bathsheba loved Troy in the way that only self-reliant women do when they abandon their self-reliance. When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has n… Thomas Hardy
“ It was the week after Easter holidays, and he was journeying along with Smart the mare and the light spring-cart, watching the damp slopes of the hill-sides as they steamed in the warmth of the sun, w… Thomas Hardy
“ This is the weather the cuckoo likes, And so do I; When showers betumble the chestnut spikes, And nestlings fly Thomas Hardy
“ I looked up from my writing, And gave a start to see,As if rapt in my inditing, The moon's full gaze on me. Thomas Hardy
“ He was to them like the poet of a new school who takes his contemporaries by storm; who is not really new, but is the first to articulate what all his listeners have felt, though but dumbly till then. Thomas Hardy
“ All laughing comes from misapprehension. Rightly looked at there is no laughable thing under the sun. Thomas Hardy
“ He's the man we were in search of, that's true, and yet he's not the man we were in search of. For the man we were in search of was not the man we wanted. Thomas Hardy
“ Hence, when his name was casually mentioned by neighboring yeomen, the listener said, "Ah, Clym Yeobright: what is he doing now?' When the instinctive question about a person is, What is he doing? it… Thomas Hardy
“ To see persons looking with children's eyes at any ordinary scenery, is a proof that they possess the charming faculty of drawing new sensations from an old experience... Thomas Hardy
