All Thomas Hardy Quotes
- Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel. Beast
- Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle. British
- Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown. Any
- 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… Age
- Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain. Drama
- There was now a distinct manifestation of morning in the air, and presently the bleared white visage of a sunless winter day emerged like a… Air
- Well, these sad and hopeless obstacles are welcome in one sense, for they enable us to look with indifference upon the cruel satires that Fate… Cruel
- Backlock, a poet blind from his birth, could describe visual objects with accuracy; Professor Sanderson, who was also blind, gave excellent lectures on color, and… Accuracy
- This hobble of being alive is rather serious, don’t you think so? Alive
- Clare had studied the curves of those lips so many times that he could reproduce them mentally with ease: and now, as they again confronted… Actually Produced
- Done because we are too many. Funny
- Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened. Believed
- She was at that modulating point between indifference and love, at the stage called having a fancy for. It occurs once in the history of… Called
- Some women's love of being loved is insatiable; and so, often, is their love of loving; and in the last case they may find that… Appointed
- ...the social mould civilization fits us into have no more relation to our actual shapes than the conventional shapes of the constellations have to the… Aberrant
- People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's… Buying
- Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer? All
- To have lost is less disturbing than to wonder if we may possibly have won; and Eustacia could now, like other people at such a… Disinterested
- In the ill-judged execution of the well-judged plan of things the call seldom produces the comer, the man to love rarely coincides with the hour… Body
- Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not. Bases