Everybody must be managed. Queens must be managed. Kings must be managed, for men want managing almost as much as women, and that's saying a good deal.
Thomas HardyTags: humor men women queens kings
If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables?
Thomas HardyTags: humor morals stories parables
And at home by the fire, whenever you look up there I shall be— and whenever I look up, there will be you.
-Gabriel Oak
A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.
Thomas HardyThe trees have inquisitive eyes, haven't they? -that is, seem as if they had. And the river says,-'Why do ye trouble me with your looks?' And you seem to see numbers of to-morrows just all in a line, the first of them the biggest and clearest, the others getting smaller and smaller as they stand further away; but they all seem very fierce and cruel and as if they said, 'I'm coming! Beware of me! Beware of me!
Thomas HardyTis because we be on a blighted star, and not a sound one, isn't it Tess?
Thomas HardyWhy is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?
Thomas HardyOnce let a maiden admit the possibility of her being stricken with love for some one at a certain hour and place, and the thing is as good as done.
Thomas HardyA little stimulated at not finding her ready and waiting - so fanciful are men! - he hastened on...
Thomas HardyThere are disappointments which wring us, and there are those which inflict a wound whose mark we bear to our graves. Such are so keen that no future gratification of the same desire can ever obliterate them: they become registered as a permanent loss of happiness.
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