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 HardyMots clés 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 HardyMots clés 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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