If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.
THOMAS HARDYIf we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.
THOMAS HARDYWhy is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?
THOMAS HARDYThe first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.
THOMAS HARDYWomen are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
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 HARDYBut nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.
THOMAS HARDYYou ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
THOMAS HARDYWomen accept their destiny more readily than men.
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 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 is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
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 HARDYThe resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
THOMAS HARDYOur impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.
THOMAS HARDYThe sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
THOMAS HARDYOf course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
THOMAS HARDY