Their position was perhaps the happiest of all positions in the social scale, being above the line at which neediness ends, and below the line at which the convenances begin to cramp natural feeling, and the stress of threadbare modishness makes too little of enough.More Thomas Hardy quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.More Thomas Hardy quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown.More Thomas Hardy quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all. Circumspection and devotion are a contradiction in terms.More Thomas Hardy quotes [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Bathsheba loved Troy in the way that only self-reliant women love when they abandon their self-reliance. When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength she is worse than a weak woman who has never any strength to throw away. One source of her inadequacy is the novelty of the occasion. She has never had practice in making the best of such a condition. Weakness is doubly weak by being new.More Thomas Hardy quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]