Quotes by : Thomas Hardy

Ah, dear Jude; that's because you are like a totally deaf manobserving people listening to music. You....

I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on.

She tried to argue, and tell him that he had mixed in his dull brain two matters, theology and morals,....

Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.

Fundamental belief consoled him for superficial irony.

Some of the most passionately erotic poets have been the most self-contained in their daily lives.

Let truth be told - women do as a rule live through such humiliations, and regain their spirits, and....

A blaze of love and extinction, was better than a lantern glimmer of the same which should last long....

Done because we are too many.

Don't take on about her, Gabriel. What difference does it make whose sweetheart she is, since she can't....