“ 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
“ 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 cruelly, she encourages him to love her while she doesn't love hi… 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
“ Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not. 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
“ You are absolutely the most ethereal, least sensual woman I ever knew to exist without inhuman sexlessness. Thomas Hardy
“ He's charmed by her as if she were some fairy! continued Arabella. See how he looks round at her, and lets his eyes rest on her. I am inclined to think that she don't care for him quite so much as he… Thomas Hardy
“ Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art. Thomas Hardy
“ 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 late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job. Thomas Hardy
“ Women are never tired of bewailing man’s fickleness in love, but they only seem to snub his constancy. Thomas Hardy
“ People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's pleasure with a life's discomfort. Thomas Hardy
“ You simply mean that you flirted outrageously with him, poor old chap, and then repented, and to make reparation, married him, though you tortured yourself to death by doing it. Thomas Hardy
“ It was a fatal omission of Boldwood's that he had never once told her she was beautiful. Thomas Hardy
“ This good fellowship - camaraderie - usually occurring through the similarity of pursuits is unfortunately seldom super-added to love between the sexes, because men and women associate, not in their l… Thomas Hardy
