Quotes by Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

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At first I did not love you, Jude; that I own. When I first knew you I merely wanted you to love me. I did not exactly f — Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
Sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonized at the thought of — Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
The yard was a little centre of regeneration. Here, with keen edges and smooth curves, were forms in the exact likeness — Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
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 — Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
As to our going on together as we were going, in a sort of friendly way, the people round us would have made it unable t — Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
Some women’s love of being loved is insatiable ; and so, often, is their love of loving; and in the last case they may f — Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they — Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
And then he again uneasily saw, as he had latterly seen with more and more frequency, the scorn of Nature for man’s fine — Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
Life with a man is more businesslike after it, and money matters work better. And then, you see, if you have rows, and h — Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
The flowers in the bride’s hand are sadly like the garland which decked the heifers of sacrifice in old times!”“Still, S — Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
I have been looking at the marriage service in the Prayer-book, and it seems to me very humiliating that a giver-away sh — Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
I am certain one ought to be allowed to undo what one has done so ignorantly ! I daresay it happens to lots of women; on — Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
And so, standing before the aforesaid officiator, the two swore that at every other time of their lives till death took — Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
--the ethereal, fine-nerved, sensitive girl, quite unfitted by temperament and instinct to fulfil the conditions of the — Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
Then if children make so much trouble, why do people have 'em? — Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
I think that whenever children be born that are not wanted they should be killed directly, before their souls come to 'e — Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
It is a difficult question, my friends, for any young man-- that question I had to grapple with, and which thousands are — Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
I have been thinking that the social moulds civilisation fits us into have no more relation to our actual shapes than th — Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
I had a neat stock of fixed opinions, but they dropped away one by one; and the further I get the less sure I am. I doub — Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you. — Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure