Thomas Hardy Quotes


41 Thomas Hardy quotes:



"Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change."
Author: Hardy Quotes Category: Time Quotes English Novelist Quotes
"If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone."
Author: Hardy Quotes Category: Poetry Quotes English Novelist Quotes
"I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on."
Author: Hardy Quotes Category: Family Quotes English Novelist Quotes
"The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes."
Author: Hardy Quotes Category: English Novelist Quotes Disappointment Quotes
"The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible"
Author: Hardy Quotes Category: Evil Quotes
"Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity"
Author: Hardy Quotes Category: Courage Quotes
"It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in a language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs."
Author: Hardy Quotes Category: English Novelist Quotes Feelings Quotes
"Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons."
Author: Hardy Quotes Category: English Novelist Quotes Immoral Quotes
"The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years."
Author: Hardy Quotes Category: English Novelist Quotes
"A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all."
Author: Hardy Quotes Category: English Novelist Quotes
"Fear is the mother of foresight."
Author: Hardy Quotes Category: English Novelist Quotes Fear Quotes
"There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound."
Author: Hardy Quotes Category: English Novelist Quotes
"You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them."
Author: Hardy Quotes Category: English Novelist Quotes
"Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them."
Author: Hardy Quotes Category: English Novelist Quotes
"Some folk want their luck buttered."
Author: Hardy Quotes Category: English Novelist Quotes Luck Quotes
"The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job."
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"And yet to every bad there is a worse."
Author: Hardy Quotes Category: English Novelist Quotes
"Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity."
Author: Hardy Quotes Category: English Novelist Quotes
"It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs."
Author: Hardy Quotes Category: English Novelist Quotes
"A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible."
Author: Hardy Quotes Category: English Novelist Quotes



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