The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.
THOMAS HARDYThe offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.
THOMAS HARDYThat man’s silence is wonderful to listen to.
THOMAS HARDYAll romances end at marriage.
THOMAS HARDYTime changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
THOMAS HARDYIs a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
THOMAS HARDYOur impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.
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 HARDYWomen accept their destiny more readily than men.
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 HARDYYou ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
THOMAS HARDYIt is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
THOMAS HARDYWomen are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
THOMAS HARDYRemember that the best and greatest among mankind are those who do themselves no worldly good. Every successful man is more or less a selfish man. The devoted fail.
THOMAS HARDYWomen are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.
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 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 HARDY