Quotes by Thomas Hardy
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.
And yet to every bad there is a worse.
My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own.
The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.
Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would.
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.
"Come hither, Son," I heard Death say; "I did not will a grave Should end thy pilgrimage today, But I, too, am a slave!"
"Justice" was done, and the President of the Immortals, in Æschylean phrase, had ended his sport with Tess. And the d'Urberville knights and ...
"I can make you happy," said he to the back of her head, across the bush. "You shall have a piano in a year or two—farmers' wives are gettin...
Don't you go believing in sayings, Picotee: they are all made by men, for their own advantages. Women who use public proverbs as a guide throu...
And so, standing before the aforesaid officiator, the two swore that at every other time of their lives till death took them, they would assur...
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 ...
The Young Man's Best Companion, The Farrier's Sure Guide, The Veterinary Surgeon, Paradise Lost, The Pilgrim's Progress, Robinson Crusoe, Ash'...
It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because m...
If a way to the better there be, it lies in taking a full look at the worst.
Loving is misery for women always. I shall never forgive God for making me a woman and dearly am I beginning to pay for the honour of owning a pretty face.
I shall be breakfasted before you are afield. In short, I shall astonish you all.
A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.
There was no exaggeration in Marian's definition of Flintcomb-Ash farm as a starve-acre place. The single fat thing on the soil was Marian herself; and she was an importation. Of the three classes of village, the village cared for by its lord, the village cared for by itself, and the village uncared for either by itself or by its lord (in other words, the village of a resident squires's tenantry, the village of free or copy-holders, and the absentee-owner's village, farmed with the land) this place, Flintcomb-Ash, was the third. But Tess set to work. Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity, was now no longer a minor feature in Mrs Angel Clare; and it sustained her.
The fundamental error of their matrimonial union that of having based a permanent contract on a temporary feeling.
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
Had he and I but met By some old ancient inn, We should have sat us down to wet Right many a nipperkin! But ranged as infantry, And staring face to face, I shot at him as he at me, And killed him in his place. I shot him dead because-- Because he was my foe, Just so: my foe of course he was; That's clear enough; although He thought he
Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
