{"author":"Thomas Hardy","author_id":"Thomas+Hardy","total_quotes":196,"quotes":[{"text":"When I want a broad-minded opinion for general enlightenment, distinct from special advice, I never go to a man who deals in the subject professionally. So I like the parson's opinion on law, the lawyer's on doctoring, the doctor's on business, and my business-man's . . . On morals.","author":"Thomas Hardy","tags":["advice","opinions"],"id":914,"author_id":"Thomas+Hardy"},{"text":"To see persons looking with children's eyes at any ordinary scenery, is a proof that they possess the charming faculty of drawing new sensations from an old experience...","author":"Thomas Hardy","tags":["curiosity"],"id":5802,"author_id":"Thomas+Hardy"},{"text":"The next morning, when Thomasin withdrew the curtains of her bedroom window, there stood the Maypole in the middle of the greek, its top cutting into the sky. It had sprung up in the night. Or rather early morning, like Jack's bean-stalk. She opened the casement to get a better view of the garlands and posies that adored it. The sweet perfume of the flowers had already spread into the surrounding air, which being free from every taint, conducted to her lips a full measure of the fragrance received from the spire of blossom in its midst. At the top of the pole were crossed hoops decked with small flowers; beneath these came a milk-white zone of Maybloom;then a zone of bluebells, then of cowslips, then of lilacs, then of ragged-rosins, daffodils and so on, till the lowest stage was reached.Thomasin noticed all these, and was delighted that the May revel was to be so near.","author":"Thomas Hardy","tags":["beanstalk","blossom","flowers","may","maypole"],"id":5900,"author_id":"Thomas+Hardy"},{"text":"Altogether he was one in whom no man would have seen anything to admire, and in whom no woman would have seen anything to dislike.","author":"Thomas Hardy","tags":["character","men","traits"],"id":8033,"author_id":"Thomas+Hardy"},{"text":"It may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting outof love as there is for getting in. Some people look upon marriage as ashort cut that way, but it has been known to fail.","author":"Thomas Hardy","tags":["humorous"],"id":9726,"author_id":"Thomas+Hardy"},{"text":"When yellow lights struggle with blue shades in hairlike lines.","author":"Thomas Hardy","tags":["atmosphere","color","light"],"id":18913,"author_id":"Thomas+Hardy"},{"text":"Was once lost always lost really true of chastity?","author":"Thomas Hardy","tags":["lost","women"],"id":28320,"author_id":"Thomas+Hardy"},{"text":"When you've made up your mind to marry, take the first respectable body that comes to hand - she's as good as any other; they be all alike in groundwork: 'tis only in the flourishes there's a difference.","author":"Thomas Hardy","tags":["marriage","marriage-advice","wife","wives"],"id":28785,"author_id":"Thomas+Hardy"},{"text":"To sorrow I bade good morrow, And thought to leave her far away behind; But cheerly, cheerly, She loves me dearly; She is so constant to me, and so kind. I would deceive her, And so leave her, But ah! She is so constant and so kind.","author":"Thomas Hardy","tags":["sorrow"],"id":29432,"author_id":"Thomas+Hardy"},{"text":"She seemed to be occupied with of inner chamber of ideas and to have slight need for visible objects.","author":"Thomas Hardy","tags":["contentment","ideas","learning","materialism"],"id":29740,"author_id":"Thomas+Hardy"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":196,"pages":20,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}