Thomas Hardy Feelings Quotations

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

He wished she knew his impressions, but he would as soon as thought of carrying an odour in a net as of attempting to convey the intangibles of his feeling in the coarse meshes of language. So he remained silent.

Their position was perhaps the happiest of all positions in the social scale, being above the line at which neediness ends, and below the line at which the convenances begin to cramp natural feeling, and the stress of threadbare modishness makes too little of enough.

Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied soul of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is then more impressive than speech.

They spoke very little of their mutual feeling; pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.