"Gabriel Oak: "It's time for you to fight your own battles... and win them too."
- Thomas Hardy
"Plenty of mathematicians, Hardy knew, could follow a step-by-step discursus unflaggingly—yet counted for nothing beside Ramanujan. Years later, he would contrive an informal scale of natural mathemati..."
- Robert Kanigel
"Every woman who makes a permanent impression on a man is afterwards recalled to his mind's eye as she appeared in one particular scene, which seems ordained to be her special medium of manifestation t..."
"His kisses tapped into deep mines of memory, and the years that had separated us fell away as if they were nothing."
- Lisa Kleypas
"I think you could probably thaw out a glacier, honey." -Hardy Cates"
"What you should really be sorry for," he continued, "is that for the rest of my life, I'll have to avoid wine cellars to keep from thinking about you.""Why? Was kissing me that bad?"A devil-solf whisp..."
"The look of experience suited him, especially because somewhere deep in those eyes, there still lurked a dangerous invitation to play. He had a quality of masculine confidence that was a thousand time..."
"I do not think that G. H. Hardy was talking nonsense when he insisted that the mathematician was discovering rather than creating... The world for me is a necessary system, and in the degree to which ..."
- Brand Blanshard
"Littlewood, on Hardy's own estimate, is the finest mathematician he has ever known. He was the man most likely to storm and smash a really deep and formidable problem; there was no one else who could ..."
- Henry Hallett Dale