“ It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession Thomas Hardy
“ How very lovable her face was to him. Yet there was nothing ethereal about it; all was real vitality, real warmth, real incarnation. And it was in her mouth that this culminated. Eyes almost as deep a… Thomas Hardy
“ Finding this, she was much perplexed as to Henchard's motives in opening the matter at all; for in such cases we attribute to an enemy a power of consistent action which we never find in ourselves or… Thomas Hardy
“ Give way to the Better if way to the Better there be It exacts a full look at the Worst. Thomas Hardy
“ It was then that the ecstasy and the dream began, in which emotion was the matter of the universe, and matter but an adventitious intrusion likely to hinder you from spinning where you wanted to spin. Thomas Hardy
“ Every woman who makes a permanent impression on a man is afterwards recalled to his mind's eye as she appeared in one particular scene, which seems ordained to be her special medium of manifestation t… Thomas Hardy
“ Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society and we can't get out of it if we would. Thomas Hardy
“ لأن الرجال مخلوفات غبية ومخلصة! و قد يحاولون التغلب على مشاعر الحب في داخلهم ولكن الجميع سيغرق في الحزن و الكآبة. Thomas Hardy
“ Men thin away to insignificance and oblivion quite as often by not making the most of good spirits when they have them as by lacking good spirits when they are indispensable. Thomas Hardy
“ If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables? Thomas Hardy
“ If I really seem vain, it is that I am only vain in my ways—not in my heart. The worst women are those vain in their hearts, and not in their ways. Thomas Hardy
