Henchard's Quotes

#1. Finding this, she was much perplexed as to Henchard's motives in opening the matter at all; for in such cases we attribute to an enemy a power of consistent action which we never find in ourselves or or in our friends ...

Thomas Hardy

#2. If she had not been imprudence incarnate, she would not have acted as she did when she met Henchard by accident a day or two later.

Thomas Hardy

#3. Vlad had found himself longing to encounter those of his own kind, to travel to the streets of Elysia-that far away world, but after a while it seemed more of a fairy tale than anything else.
Like Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy, only with fangs.

Heather Brewer

#4. I conceive, therefore, that a somewhat comprehensive socialisation of investment will prove the means of securing an approximation to full employment.

John Maynard Keynes

#5. Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.

Honore De Balzac

#6. You can't draw lines in the sand like that. Humour's a tsunami that doesn't care about your little lines.

S.A. Tawks

#7. Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.

Agnes Repplier

#8. A secret to which truth has always initiated her lovers, and through which they have learned that it is in hiding that she offers to them most truly.

Jacques Lacan

#9. I reached out my hand to her. She had been there at the table, this sad, kind, talented woman. She had heard everything, but had been unable to speak to us.

Priya Parmar

#10. I felt like Jerry Lewis in France! Let the cast of Heroes go to France! The Office cast loves Scranton! The nicest people on earth are in Scranton. Thank you, Scranton for an experience we will take with us for the rest of our lives.

Kate Flannery