Thomas Hardy Quotes
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Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it.
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Many of her thoughts were perfect syllogisms; unluckily they always remained thoughts. Only a few were irrational assumptions; but, unfortunately, they were the ones which most frequently grew into deeds.
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Tis because we be on a blighted star, and not a sound one, isn't it Tess?
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It was then that the ecstasy and the dream began, in which emotion was the matter of the universe, and matter but an adventitious intrusion likely to hinder you from spinning where you wanted to spin.
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Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
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Nobody had beheld the gravitation of the two into one.
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My 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.
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When women are secret they are secret indeed; and more often then not they only begin to be secret with the advent of a second lover.
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Where we are would be Paradise to me, if you would only make it so.
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Remember 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.
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O, you have torn my life all to pieces... made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!
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Black chaos comes, and the fettered gods of the earth say, Let there be light.
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And yet to every bad there is a worse.
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So 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.
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Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.
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The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.
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The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.
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A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.
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The 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.
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Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
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I want to question my belief, so that what is left after I have questioned it, will be even stronger.
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- the ethereal, fine-nerved, sensitive girl, quite unfitted by temperament and instinct to fulfil the conditions of the matrimonial relation with Phillotson, possibly with scarce any man.
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If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst.
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Don't think of what's past!" said she. "I am not going to think outside of now. Why should we! Who knows what tomorrow has in store?