Thomas Hardy, What A Pleasure To Pick Up One Of His Books.

A few of his dictums.

" That man's silence is wonderful to listen to. "

" Some folk want their luck buttered. "

" People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's pleasure with a life's discomfort. "

" Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks..."

" 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 at crises. "

" I am not a fool, you know, although I am a woman, and have my woman's moments. "

" I forgot the defective can be more than the whole. "

" It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs. "

" But some women only require an emergency to make them fit for one. "

Thomas Hardy ( 1840-1928 )

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