"Was once lost always lost really true of chastity?












More Thomas Hardy quotes
"Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
"If I really seem vain, it is that I am only vain in my ways—not in my heart. The worst women are those vain in their hearts, and not in their ways.
"When women are secret they are secret indeed and more often then not they only begin to be secret with the advent of a second lover.
"This good fellowship - camaraderie - usually occurring through the similarity of pursuits is unfortunately seldom super-added to love between the sexe...
"She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, feared at tea-parties, hated in shops, and loved...
"It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
"When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.
"I have no fear of men, as such, nor of their books. I have mixed with them--one or two of them particularly-- almost as one of their own sex. I mean I...
"Some women’s love of being loved is insatiable ; and so, often, is their love of loving; and in the last case they may find that they can’t give it co...
"I am only a peasant by position, not by nature!
"[She] soon perceived that as she walked in the flock, sometimes with this one, sometimes with that, that the fresh night air was producing staggerings...
"A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.
"Backlock, a poet blind from his birth, could describe visual objects with accuracy; Professor Sanderson, who was also blind, gave excellent lectures o...
"But you will never realize that an incident which filled but a degree in the circle of your thoughts covered the whole circumference of mine. No perso...