Well, these sad and hopeless obstacles are welcome in one sense, for they enable us to look with indifference upon the cruel satires that Fate loves to indulge in. Thomas Hardy More Quotes by Thomas Hardy More Quotes From Thomas Hardy A blaze of love and extinction, was better than a lantern glimmer of the same which should last long years. Thomas Hardy extinctionlongyears I. At Tea THE kettle descants in a cosy drone, And the young wife looks in her husband's face, And then in her guest's, and shows in her own Her sense that she fills an envied place; And the visiting lady is all abloom, And says there was never so sweet a room. And the happy young housewife does not know That the woman beside her was his first choice, Till the fates ordained it could not be so.... Betraying nothing in look or voice The guest sits smiling and sips her tea, And he throws her a stray glance yearningly. Thomas Hardy fatehusbandsweet You overrate my capacity of love. I don't posess half the warmth of nature you believe me to have. An unprotected childhood in a cold world has beaten gentleness out of me. Thomas Hardy childhoodhalfbelieve Thoroughly convinced of the impossibility of his own suit, a high resolve constrained him not to injure that of another. This is a lover's most stoical virtue, as the lack of it is a lover's most venial sin. Thomas Hardy suitssinlovers You, and those like you, take your fill of pleasure on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and black with sorrow; and then it is a fine thing, when you have had enough of that, to think of securing your pleasure in heaven by becoming converted! Thomas Hardy blackheaventhinking I wish I had never been born--there or anywhere else. Thomas Hardy bornwish Let truth be told - women do as a rule live through such humiliations, and regain their spirits, and again look about them with an interested eye. While there's life there's hope is a connviction not so entirely unknown to the "betrayed" as some amiable theorists would have us believe. Thomas Hardy eyebelievelooks ...the figure near at hand suffers on such occasions, because it shows up its sorriness without shade; while vague figures afar off are honored, in that their distance makes artistic virtues of their stains. In considering what Tess was not, he overlooked what she was, and forgot that the defective can be more than the entire. Thomas Hardy distancesufferinghands Her affection for him was now the breath and life of Tess's being; it enveloped her as a photosphere, irradiated her into forgetfulness of her past sorrows, keeping back the gloomy spectres that would persist in their attempts to touch her—doubt, fear, moodiness, care, shame. She knew that they were waiting like wolves just outside the circumscribing light, but she had long spells of power to keep them in hungry subjection there. Thomas Hardy lightlongpast Bless thy simplicity, Tess Thomas Hardy tessblesssimplicity She was but a transient impression, half forgotten. Thomas Hardy impressionhalfforgotten If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables? Thomas Hardy parablesmoralstories you are absolutely the most ethereal, least sensual woman I ever knew to exist without inhuman sexlessness. Thomas Hardy etherealinhumansensual 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 Hardy queenskingsmen Always wanting another man than your own. Thomas Hardy another-manmen The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses; its true history lay, not among things done, but among things willed. Thomas Hardy achievementdonecharacter He knelt and bent lower, till her breath warmed his face, and in a moment his cheek was in contact with hers. She was sleeping soundly, and upon her eyelashes there lingered tears. Thomas Hardy eyelashestearssleep Never in her life – she could swear it from the bottom of her soul – had she ever intended to do wrong; yet these hard judgments had come. Whatever her sins, they were not sins of intention, but of inadvertence, and why should she have been punished so persistently? Thomas Hardy judgmentsinsoul O, you have torn my life all to pieces... made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again! Thomas Hardy tess-of-the-d-urbervillespitypieces Nobody had beheld the gravitation of the two into one Thomas Hardy gravitationtwo
