The Hand of Ethelberta Quotes

“A half knowledge of another's life mostly does injustice to the life unknown.”
― Thomas Hardy, The Hand of Ethelberta

“She is one of those people who are known, as one may say, by subscription: everybody knows a little, till she is astonishingly well known altogether; but nobody knows her entirely.  She”
― Thomas Hardy, The Hand of Ethelberta

“Between himself and her there was that kind of division which is more insurmountable than enmity; for estrangements produced by good judgment will last when those of feeling break down in smiles. Not the lovers who part in passion, but the lovers who part in friendship, are those who most frequently part forever.”
― Thomas Hardy , The Hand of Ethelberta

“New love is brightest, and long love is greatest; but revived love is the tenderest thing known upon earth.”
― Thomas Hardy, The Hand of Ethelberta

“The truth is, that I never care much for reading what one ought to read; I wish I did, but I cannot help it.  And,”
― Thomas Hardy, The Hand of Ethelberta

“A woman who attempts a public career must expect to be treated as public property: what would be an intrusion on a domiciled gentlewoman is a tribute to me.”
― Thomas Hardy, The Hand of Ethelberta

“But in recognizing her ignorance of the ratio between words to women and deeds to women in the ethical code of the bachelor of the club, she forgot that human nature in the gross differs little with situation, and that a gift which, if the germs were lacking, no amount of training in clubs and coteries could supply, was mother-wit like her own.”
― Thomas Hardy, The Hand of Ethelberta

“Love begins with a sense of superior discernment.”
― Thomas Hardy, The Hand of Ethelberta

“Marriage is only an accident of situation, situation an accident of history, history of geography.”
― Thomas Hardy, The Hand of Ethelberta

“Marriage is only an accident of situation, situation an accident of history, history of geography,”
― Thomas Hardy, The Hand of Ethelberta

“Marriage is only an accident of situation, situation an accident of history, and history of geography.”
― Thomas Hardy, The Hand of Ethelberta