Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
THOMAS HARDYTime changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
THOMAS HARDYWomen are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.
THOMAS HARDYIt was still early, and the sun’s lower limb was just free of the hill, his rays, ungenial and peering, addressed the eye rather than the touch as yet.
THOMAS HARDYWell, these sad and hopeless obstacles are welcome in one sense, for they enable us to look with indifference upon the cruel satires that Fate loves to indulge in.
THOMAS HARDYLove is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
THOMAS HARDYYou overrate my capacity of love. I don’t posess half the warmth of nature you believe me to have. An unprotected childhood in a cold world has beaten gentleness out of me.
THOMAS HARDYTheir position was perhaps the happiest of all positions in the social scale, being above the line at which neediness ends, and below the line at which the convenances begin to cramp natural feeling, and the stress of threadbare modishness makes too little of enough.
THOMAS HARDYThat man’s silence is wonderful to listen to.
THOMAS HARDYAll romances end at marriage.
THOMAS HARDYDo not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
THOMAS HARDYThat one true heart was left behind! What feeling do we ever find, to equal among human kind, a dog’s fidelity!
THOMAS HARDYIf we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.
THOMAS HARDYThe perfect woman, you see [is] a working-woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who [uses] her hands and her head and her heart for the good of others.
THOMAS HARDYLet me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight.
THOMAS HARDYThe sky was clear – remarkably clear – and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.
THOMAS HARDYSome women’s love of being loved is insatiable; and so, often, is their love of loving; and in the last case they may find that they can’t give it continuously to the chamber-officer appointed by the bishop’s license to receive it.
THOMAS HARDY