War makes rattling good history.

If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables?

...she moved about in a mental cloud of many-coloured idealities, which eclipsed all sinister contingencies by its brightness.

This hobble of being alive is rather serious, don’t you think so?

Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.

To have lost is less disturbing than to wonder if we may possibly have won; and Eustacia could now, like other people at such a stage, take a standing-point outside herself, observe herself as a disinterested spectator, and think what a sport for Heaven this woman Eustacia was.

It may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting out of love as there is for getting in. Some people look upon marriage as a short cut that way, but it has been known to fail.