"The Woodlanders" Quotes

Why should it be that in the long run, in a world so incalculable in its events as ours, the present should always be so clearly traceable back to the near past, and the future should so often with such startling unexpectedness descend out of the unseen and unknown?

I shouldn't mind being a poor man if the person I loved was as poor as I.

There are some who are liable to heart-sickness from excessive mental activity, and these are driven to take a tonic–or to die.

It was the beginning of a time when it was almost as hard to be in love as it was to be poor.

The most affecting aspect of Jude’s performance was its air of unconsciousness.

How should it be that in the very least particular it was brought about? Why should it be that in the long run, in a world so incalculable in its events as ours, the present should always be so clearly traceable back to the near past, and the future should so often with such startling unexpectedness descend out of the unseen and unknown?

The two or three minutes of her’s that he had shared had been the sublimest of his life.

The ethical life may be the logical one, probably is the logical one: but it is not the only logical one.

In all the faces which surrounded him he read a potential capacity for change, except in the hard, familiar face of his father.

His outward manner, too, in consequence of his long and intimate knowledge of her, was the texture of a mere fibrous growth, which had no permanence about it.