Thomas Hardy Quotes


41 quotes:

"Well: what we gain by science is, after all, sadness, as the Preacher saith. The more we know of the laws and nature of the Universe the more ghastly a business we perceive it all to be -- and the non-necessity of it."
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"The excessive regard of parents for their children, and their dislike of other people's is, like class feeling, patriotism, save-your-soul-ism, and other virtues, a mean exclusiveness at bottom."
Author: Hardy Quotes Category: Parents Quotes
"Unto this wood I came As to a nest; Dreaming that sylvan peace Offered the harrowed ease- Nature a soft release From men's unrest"
Author: Hardy Quotes Category: Nature Quotes
"And at home by the fire, whenever you look up, there I shall be - and whenever I look up, there you shall be"
Author: Hardy Quotes Category: Fire Quotes
"What of the faith and fire within us / Men who march away / Ere the barncocks say / Night is growing gray, / Leaving all that here can win us?"
Author: Hardy Quotes Category: Faith Quotes
"The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible"
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"Try to learn something about everything and everything about something."
Author: Hardy Quotes Category: English Scientist Quotes Learning Quotes
"You was a good man, and did good things."
Author: Hardy Quotes Category: English Novelist Quotes
"The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse."
Author: Hardy Quotes Category: English Novelist Quotes
"The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible."
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"My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own."
Author: Hardy Quotes Category: English Novelist Quotes
"If way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst."
Author: Hardy Quotes Category: English Novelist Quotes
"Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it."
Author: Hardy Quotes Category: English Novelist Quotes
"Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel."
Author: Hardy Quotes Category: English Novelist Quotes Words Quotes
"Aspect are within us, and who seems most kingly is king."
Author: Hardy Quotes Category: English Novelist Quotes
"A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all. Circumspection and devotion are a contradiction in terms."
Author: Hardy Quotes Category: English Novelist Quotes
"Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would."
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"Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art."
Author: Hardy Quotes Category: English Novelist Quotes
"Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honour as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity."
Author: Hardy Quotes Category: English Novelist Quotes Talent Quotes
"That man's silence is wonderful to listen to."
Author: Hardy Quotes Category: English Novelist Quotes

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