"The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

An average woman is in this superior to an average man—that she never instigates, only responds.
~ Thomas Hardy ~












An average woman is in this superior to an average man—that she never instigates, only responds.

More Thomas Hardy quotes
"Every woman who makes a permanent impression on a man is afterwards recalled to his mind's eye as she appeared in one particular scene, which seems or...
"you are absolutely the most ethereal, least sensual woman I ever knew to exist without inhuman sexlessness.
"Sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonized at the thought of treating a man cruelly, she en...
"I have sometimes thought--that under the affectation of independent views you are as enslaved to the social code as any woman I know!
"I have been looking at the marriage service in the Prayer-book, and it seems to me very humiliating that a giver-away should be required at all. Accor...
"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.
"Eustacia Vye was the raw material of a divinity. On Olympus she would have done well with a little preparation. She had the passions and instincts whi...