My wicked heart will ramble on in spite of myself. (Arabella)
Thomas Hardy
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Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite:
"Fool!" said my muse to me, "look in thy heart,...
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SEAMUS HEANEY Her suspense was terrible.
THOMAS HARDY Fancies find room in the strongest minds. Here, in a churchyard old as civilization, in the worst of...
THOMAS HARDY Error is a hardy plant; it flourisheth in every coil; In the heart of the wise and good, alike with ...
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SIR PHILIP SIDNEY If she had not been imprudence incarnate, she would not have acted as she did when she met Henchard ...
THOMAS HARDY Eyeing her as a critic eyes a doubtful painting.
THOMAS HARDY I'm really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.
L.M. MONTGOMERY I sort of half read Thomas Hardy's 'The Mayor of Casterbridge.' It was assigned in 10th ...
SUZANNE COLLINS And all this while the subtle-souled girl asking herself why she was born, why sitting in a room, an...
THOMAS HARDY The Scotchman seemed hardly the same Farfrae who had danced with her, and walked with her, in a deli...
THOMAS HARDY My heart only ever had one thought, one want. One need. Despite all, in spite of all...All my heart ...
STEPHANIE LAURENS I shall now call myself;
I shall now call.
In the forest of my heart, seeing myself,
...
SRI CHINMOY In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my gre...
VINCENT VAN GOGH In spite of everything, I shall rise again; I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my gr...
VINCENT VAN GOGH In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my gre...
VINCENT VAN GOGH I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at hear...
ANNE FRANK Yet her experience had consisted less in a series of pure disappointments than in a series of substi...
THOMAS HARDY The curious double strands in Farfrae's thread of life - the commercial and the romantic - were very...
THOMAS HARDY Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now a...
THOMAS HARDY People are going to think I'm morbid, loving all these sad books. I actually don't mind a happy endi...
JULIA L. ROBERTS I cannot help it;- in spite of myself, infinity torments me.
ALFRED MUSSET I cannot help it;- in spite of myself, infinity torments me.
ALFRED DE MUSSET I cannot help it - in spite of myself, infinity torments me.
ALFRED DE MUSSET If I'm going to merely ramble, maybe I should just snuggle under the warm covers, think of Miu, and ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI I believe, sometimes in spite of myself, in grace and better things to come and a time when we will ...
ALLY CONDIE The whole time my mindset was always to try and get better in spite of what was going on, and in spi...
WILLIAM GREEN In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up...
ANNE FRANK I'd be lying if I claimed that, in spite of our amiable afternoons, I don't have an ache som...
SANDRA TSING LOH I will teach you to love death. I will empty you of grief and guilt and self-pity and fill you up wi...
RICK YANCEY Let truth be told - women do as a rule live through such humiliations, and regain their spirits, and...
THOMAS HARDY My money's on Thomas Kyd,
JAMES SHAPIRO In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
ANNE FRANK In spite of everything, I still believe that people are truly good at heart.
KURT HUBER I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are still truly good at heart,
ANNE FRANK The wicked at heart probably know something.
WOODY ALLEN I Am In Love With Myself, With My Heart.
NIRAV SANCHANIYA We must have a real living determination to reach holiness. I will be a saint means I will despoil m...
MOTHER THERESA I reason everything out, and usually analyze my tastes too well to succumb to them blindly. And that...
GUY DE MAUPASSANT The heart is deceitful and wicked in everyone; the Holy Spirit changes even the most wretched sinner...
NORM TOMLINSON My heart is hardy, for I have suffered much on the seas and the battlefield: this will be only somet...
W.H.D. ROUSE I am powerful in my love for myself. The truth of my being is I love myself exactly as I am. I honor...
AMY LEIGH MERCREE Lucy Mercedes Martinez, my mother, was probably my first mentor. She really tried to take care of me...
RICHARD CARMONA In spite of myself, I gave a snort. "Just once, I'd like to hear a simple, straightforward prophecy.
CAMERON DOKEY I know my heart will never be the same
But I'm telling myself I'll be okay
SARA EVANS You are the master of my heart. I am a slave to you're soul. Intertwined in a perfect embrace that I...
TRUTH DEVOUR But she has gathered that Americans, in spite of their public declarations of affection, in spite of...
JHUMPA LAHIRI In westerns, you meet a hardy bunch of characters. There is no jealousy on such pictures.
JOHN WAYNE I jerk my head toward Thomas and immediately curse myself for trying to be a smartass. My head is no...
KENDARE BLAKE Looking into my heart, which is perhaps the best way of looking into other men's, I know that the Sa...
R. J. CAMPBELL But words came halting forth, wanting Invention's stay;
Invention, Nature's child, fled stepdam...
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY The feminist surge will crest when a lady named Arabella, flounces and ruffles and all, can rise to ...
ALMA DENNY I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free...I'm sure I should be myself were I onc...
EMILY BRONTë I can't stop crying because I know that I can't fall out of love with him
PELLE Thomas! What are you doing!" and I gestured, "I thought this was Nothing," covering myself with one ...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER Father, my heart, my heart; my dead heart, quicken it; my hard heart, soften it in Christ’s blood....
THOMAS WATSON I, Master John Hus, in chains and in prison, now standing on the shore of this present life and expe...
JAN HUS My mother didn’t have a heart, Kreacher,” Sirius snapped. "She kept herself alive out of pure sp...
J.K. ROWLING in spite of the terrorism, in spite of the threats.
HAMID KARZAI Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart. -Thomas Fuller.
THOMAS FULLER My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE She's alive," Thomas said, not opening his eyes.
"What?" Will was caught off guard.
"The o...
CASSANDRA CLARE Light breaks where no sun shines; / Where no sea runs, the waters of the heart / Push in their tides...
DYLAN THOMAS My mind is killing me”
— The Glass Child, Stuck In My Mind
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approv...
THOMAS PAINE I've successfully convinced others to let me redevelop the historic Old Post Office Pavilion on ...
IVANKA TRUMP The heart of mankind is evil and wicked; it takes the Holy Spirit to change it.
NORM TOMLINSON in spite of the presence of that senior citizen on board.
CURT BROWN A karate practitioner should possess two things : wicked hands, and Buddha's heart
SOKE BEHZAD AHMADI ...the taste of chocolate is a sensual pleasure in itself, existing in the same world as sex... For ...
DR. RUTH WESTHEIMER So why do I write, torturing myself to put it down? Because in spite of myself I've learned some thi...
RALPH ELLISON Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time,...
BORIS PASTERNAK In my fool hardy youth, when my friends were dreaming of heroic deeds in the realms of engineering a...
ALBERTO MANGUEL My tongue will tell the anger of mine heart, Or else my heart, concealing it, will break.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful ...
T. S. ELIOT Most Christians are still living with an Old Testament view of their heart. Jeremiah 17:9 says, '...
JOHN ELDREDGE He who assists the wicked will in time rue it.
PERIANDER OF CORINTH In spite of God's love for you, in spite of the spirit filling, in spite of your ability to speak in...
SUNDAY ADELAJA In spite of the haze of speculation, it is still something of a shock to find myself here, coming to...
ROWAN WILLIAMS Father, in spite of all this spending of money in learning Latin, I will be a painter.
WILLIAM ALLAN There is only one problem on which all my existence, my peace, my happiness depend: to discover myse...
THOMAS MERTON I am grateful for the swift, professional work by the New York City Police Department, particularly ...
WILLIAM HIGGINS I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, f...
MAJOR TAYLOR I'd sell my soul to have you. In my whole life, you'll always be what I wanted most."
~ H...
LISA KLEYPAS I am so far from being a pessimist...on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at...
EUGENE O'NEILL And now I got myself together and finally understand.This time I'll take your heart in the palm of m...
MUSIQ SOULCHILD The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?
BIBLE When I die India will be found engraved on my heart.
MARY OF TECK When I die India will be found engraved on my heart.
QUEEN MARY (CONSORT OF GEORGE V) Everyone can know what is in my heart because I find it hard to conceal myself
SHAKIRA All the focus is mainly on Lamar, Jai, Tony and Will [Thomas], so I just try to make sure I make all...
FOLARIN CAMPBELL The subtle and deadly change of heart that might occur in you would be involved with the realization...
JAMES BALDWIN I know he will be OK; I know he will be safe, ... In my heart I know God is on my side and He will w...
DALE WALKER If it were in my power, I would be wiser; but a newly felt power
carries me off in spite of myself;...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) I will always be open to receive my friends. I will not force myself on them.
RALPH ABERNATHY Will Truman will be on my epitaph, but as an actor, I have to challenge myself.
ERIC MCCORMACK We're still in the middle of it, but in a lot of ways Thomas has broken through. I don't think it wa...
JEFF MEYER Kiss me Hardy
HORATIO NELSON And on seesaw Sunday nights, I'd woo who ever I would with my wicked eye!
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THOMAS HARDY Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
THOMAS HARDY A novel is an impression, not an argument; and there the matter must rest.
THOMAS HARDY You overrate my capacity of love. I don't posess half the warmth of nature you believe me to have. A...
THOMAS HARDY ...it is foreign to a man's nature to go on loving a person when he is told that he must and shall b...
THOMAS HARDY The purpose of a chronicler of moods and deeds does not require him to express his personal views up...
THOMAS HARDY My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial inte...
THOMAS HARDY you dear, sweet, tantalizing phantom--hardly flesh at all; so that when I put my arms round you I al...
THOMAS HARDY Had other aims than my delight.
THOMAS HARDY Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
THOMAS HARDY Indeed, he seemed to approach the grave as a hyperbolic curve approaches a straight line -- less dir...
THOMAS HARDY Many besides Angel have learnt that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements...
THOMAS HARDY On a Fine Morning”
in Poems of the Past and the Present (1901)
WHENCE comes Solac...
THOMAS HARDY The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of...
THOMAS HARDY Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or ...
THOMAS HARDY She had not heard him enter, and hardly realized his presence there. She was yawning, and he saw the...
THOMAS HARDY The beggarly question of parentage--what is it, after all? What does it matter, when you come to thi...
THOMAS HARDY My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.
THOMAS HARDY He had just reached the time of life at which 'young' is ceasing to be the prefix of 'man' in speaki...
THOMAS HARDY But no one came. Because no one ever does.
THOMAS HARDY My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own.
THOMAS HARDY The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the cou...
THOMAS HARDY And yet to every bad there is a worse.
THOMAS HARDY That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.
THOMAS HARDY Love, though added emotion, is substracted capacity
THOMAS HARDY Bathsheba loved Troy in the way that only self-reliant women love when they abandon their self-relia...
THOMAS HARDY