--- title: "10 May Quotes By Thomas Hardy" description: "10 May quotes by Thomas Hardy. Plus more from Thomas Hardy and more May sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/11f/thomas-hardy-410_example_i-may-do-some-good-before-i-am-dead-be-a_1026864.jpg" --- > [I may do some good before I am dead--be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hardy/i-may-do-some-good-before-i-am-dead-be-a-sort-of-success-as-a/) [Thomas Hardy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hardy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/11f/thomas-hardy-410_example_i-may-do-some-good-before-i-am-dead-be-a_1026864.jpg) > [Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hardy/did-it-never-strike-your-mind-that-what-every-woman-says-some-women/) [Thomas Hardy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hardy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/767/thomas-hardy-410_every-woman_did-it-never-strike-your-mind-that-what_418868.jpg) > [Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hardy/teach-me-to-live-that-i-may-dread-the-grave-as-little-as-my-bed-teach/) [Thomas Hardy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hardy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e19/thomas-hardy-410_bed_teach-me-to-live-that-i-may-dread-the-gr_235232.jpg) > [It may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting out of love as there is for getting in.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hardy/it-may-have-been-observed-that-there-is-no-regular-path-for-getting/) [Thomas Hardy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hardy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aba/thomas-hardy-410_cutting_it-may-have-been-observed-that-there-is_2679660.jpg) > [Some women's love of being loved is insatiable; and so, often, is their love of loving; and in the last case they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hardy/some-women-s-love-of-being-loved-is-insatiable-and-so-often-is-their/) [Thomas Hardy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hardy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b8/thomas-hardy-410_being-loved_some-women-s-love-of-being-loved-is-insa_1152989.jpg) > [People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hardy/people-go-on-marrying-because-they-can-t-resist-natural-forces/) [Thomas Hardy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hardy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/48c/thomas-hardy-410_buying_people-go-on-marrying-because-they-can-t_2105112.jpg) > [To have lost is less disturbing than to wonder if we may possibly have won; and Eustacia could now, like other people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hardy/to-have-lost-is-less-disturbing-than-to-wonder-if-we-may-possibly/) [Thomas Hardy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hardy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a0d/thomas-hardy-410_heart_to-have-lost-is-less-disturbing-than-to_2468605.jpg) > [Of love it may be said, the less earthly the less demonstrative. In its absolutely indestructible form it reaches a profundity in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hardy/of-love-it-may-be-said-the-less-earthly-the-less-demonstrative-in-its/) [Thomas Hardy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hardy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/92d/thomas-hardy-410_exhibitions_of-love-it-may-be-said-the-less-earthly_2212995.jpg) > [“It was mid-May time, bringing with it weather not, perhaps, quite so blooming as that assumed to be natural to the month…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hardy/it-was-mid-may-time-bringing-with-it-weather-not-perhaps-quite-so/) [Thomas Hardy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hardy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5ba/thomas-hardy-410_flower_it-was-mid-may-time-bringing-with-it-wea_17604.jpg) > [It was that period in the vernal quarter when we may suppose the Dryads to be waking for the season. The vegetable…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hardy/it-was-that-period-in-the-vernal-quarter-when-we-may-suppose-the/) [Thomas Hardy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hardy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ffe/thomas-hardy-410_april_it-was-that-period-in-the-vernal-quarter_479017.jpg) ## Other authors on May ## More by Thomas Hardy > [“He grew away from old associations, and saw something new in life and humanity. Secondarily, he made close acquaintance with phenomena which he had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hardy/he-grew-away-from-old-associations-and-saw-something-new-in-life-and/) [Thomas Hardy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hardy/) > [“She was in a sound sleep, Jude, dying of anxiety lest she should have caught a chill which might permanently injure her, was glad…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hardy/she-was-in-a-sound-sleep-jude-dying-of-anxiety-lest-she-should-have/) [Thomas Hardy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hardy/) > [Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hardy/meanwhile-the-trees-were-just-as-green-as-before-the-birds-sang-and/) [Thomas Hardy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hardy/) > [You ride well, but you don't kiss nicely at all.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hardy/you-ride-well-but-you-don-t-kiss-nicely-at-all/) [Thomas Hardy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hardy/) > [You could sometimes see her twelfth year in her cheeks, or her ninth sparkling from her eyes; and even her fifth would flit over…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hardy/you-could-sometimes-see-her-twelfth-year-in-her-cheeks-or-her-ninth/) [Thomas Hardy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hardy/) > [“It was mid-May time, bringing with it weather not, perhaps, quite so blooming as that assumed to be natural to the month by the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hardy/it-was-mid-may-time-bringing-with-it-weather-not-perhaps-quite-so/) [Thomas Hardy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hardy/) > [If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hardy/if-galileo-had-said-in-verse-that-the-world-moved-the-inquisition/) [Thomas Hardy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hardy/) > [Some folk want their luck buttered.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hardy/some-folk-want-their-luck-buttered/) [Thomas Hardy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hardy/) > [Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hardy/measurement-of-life-should-be-proportioned-rather-to-the-intensity-of/) [Thomas Hardy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hardy/) > [“I was court-martialed in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hardy/i-was-court-martialed-in-my-absence-and-sentenced-to-death-in-my/) [Thomas Hardy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hardy/) > [“It being the first time in his life that he had touched female fingers under water, Dick duly registered the sensation as rather a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hardy/it-being-the-first-time-in-his-life-that-he-had-touched-female/) [Thomas Hardy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hardy/) > [“As soon as she could discern the outline of the house, it had all its old effect upon Tess's imagination. Part of her body…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hardy/as-soon-as-she-could-discern-the-outline-of-the-house-it-had-all-its/) [Thomas Hardy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hardy/) > [ The perfect woman, you see \[is\] a working-woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who \[uses\] her hands and her head… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hardy/the-perfect-woman-you-see-is-a-working-woman-not-an-idler-not-a-fine/) [Thomas Hardy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hardy/) > [“The Sinister Spirit sneered: 'It had to be!' And again the Spirit of Pity whispered, 'Why?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hardy/the-sinister-spirit-sneered-it-had-to-be-and-again-the-spirit-of-pity/) [Thomas Hardy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hardy/) > [“Justice” was done, and the President of the Immortals (in Aeschylean phrase) had ended his sport with Tess.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hardy/justice-was-done-and-the-president-of-the-immortals-in-aeschylean/) [Thomas Hardy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hardy/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/may/thomas-hardy/#itemlist", "name": "10 May Quotes By Thomas Hardy", "numberOfItems": 10, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I may do some good before I am dead--be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Thomas Hardy" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hardy/i-may-do-some-good-before-i-am-dead-be-a-sort-of-success-as-a/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/11f/thomas-hardy-410_example_i-may-do-some-good-before-i-am-dead-be-a_1026864.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/11f/thomas-hardy-410_example_i-may-do-some-good-before-i-am-dead-be-a_1026864.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/11f/thomas-hardy-410_example_i-may-do-some-good-before-i-am-dead-be-a_1026864.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I may do some good before I am dead--be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so…” — Thomas Hardy", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Thomas Hardy" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hardy/did-it-never-strike-your-mind-that-what-every-woman-says-some-women/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/767/thomas-hardy-410_every-woman_did-it-never-strike-your-mind-that-what_418868.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/767/thomas-hardy-410_every-woman_did-it-never-strike-your-mind-that-what_418868.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/767/thomas-hardy-410_every-woman_did-it-never-strike-your-mind-that-what_418868.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?” — Thomas Hardy", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. 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