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 HARDYThe 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 HARDYWe colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
THOMAS HARDYA lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
THOMAS HARDYSome folk want their luck buttered.
THOMAS HARDYThe first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.
THOMAS HARDYThe business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things.
THOMAS HARDYWomen are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
THOMAS HARDYA strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.
THOMAS HARDYWhy is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?
THOMAS HARDYYou ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
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 HARDYWe ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.
THOMAS HARDYIf a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst.
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 HARDYThere’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
THOMAS HARDYIt was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity.
THOMAS HARDY