I may do some good before I am dead–be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.
THOMAS HARDYI may do some good before I am dead–be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.
THOMAS HARDYAnd yet to every bad there is a worse.
THOMAS HARDYIt may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting out of love as there is for getting in. Some people look upon marriage as a short cut that way, but it has been known to fail.
THOMAS HARDYYou concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.
THOMAS HARDYBut his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.
THOMAS HARDYWomen are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
THOMAS HARDYHappiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
THOMAS HARDYBeauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
THOMAS HARDYIt appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession.
THOMAS HARDYYou ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
THOMAS HARDYThe first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.
THOMAS HARDYIt is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
THOMAS HARDYSome folk want their luck buttered.
THOMAS HARDYLike the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
THOMAS HARDYLet not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
THOMAS HARDYTo dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.
THOMAS HARDY