A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
THOMAS HARDYA lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
THOMAS HARDYBut nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.
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 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 HARDYIf an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.
THOMAS HARDYI wish I had never been born–there or anywhere else.
THOMAS HARDYTeach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.
THOMAS HARDYIf a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst.
THOMAS HARDYBut his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.
THOMAS HARDYYou ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
THOMAS HARDYO, you have torn my life all to pieces… made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!
THOMAS HARDYIndifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.
THOMAS HARDYMy weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker.
THOMAS HARDYSo 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 HARDYShe was at that modulating point between indifference and love, at the stage called having a fancy for. It occurs once in the history of the most gigantic passions, and it is a period when they are in the hands of the weakest will.
THOMAS HARDYAll romances end at marriage.
THOMAS HARDY