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Geoffrey's own heart felt inconveniently large just then.

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She felt powerless to withstand or deny him. He was altogether too much for her, and Bathsheba seemed as one who, facing a reviving wind, finds it to ...more

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Was once lost always lost really true of chastity?

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I know women are taught by other women that they must never admit the full truth to a man. But the highest form of affection is based on full sincerit...more

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Love lives on propinquity but dies on contact.

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We discern a grand force in the lover which he lacks whilst a free man, but there is a breadth of vision in the free man which in the lover we vainly ...more

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...the social mould civilization fits us into have no more relation to our actual shapes than the conventional shapes of the constellations have to th...more

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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?

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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.

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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.

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This good fellowship - camaraderie - usually occurring through the similarity of pursuits is unfortunately seldom super-added to love between the sexe...more

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Kiss my foot, sir; my face is for mouths of consequence.

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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 he...more

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It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage ...more

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Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.