All Thomas Hardy Quotes
- Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness. Actual
- 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 and… Fine
- Their position was perhaps the happiest of all positions in the social scale, being above the line at which neediness ends, and below the line… All
- My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words,… Accomplished
- By experience", says Roger Ascham, "we find out a short way by a long wandering." Not seldom that long wandering unfits us for further travel,… Experience
- WEATHERS This is the weather the cuckoo likes, And so do I; When showers betumble the chestnut spikes, And nestlings fly; And the little brown… Bars
- If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed. Better
- Many...have learned that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements, but as to their subjective experiences. The impressionable peasant leads a… Displacements
- The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses; its true history lay, not among… Achievement
- Well, what I mean is that I shouldn't mind being a bride at a wedding, if I could be one without having a husband. Bride
- Men thin away to insignificance and oblivion quite as often by not making the most of good spirits when they have them as by lacking… Good
- You are Joseph the dreamer of dreams, dear Jude. And a tragic Don Quixote. And sometimes you are St. Stephen, who, while they were stoning… Comrade
- She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, hated at tea parties, feared in shops,… Crises
- ...Nameless, unknown to me as you were, I couldn't forget your voice!' 'For how long?' 'O - ever so long. Days and days.' 'Days and… Blown
- When women are secret they are secret indeed; and more often then not they only begin to be secret with the advent of a second… Advent
- Of love it may be said, the less earthly the less demonstrative. In its absolutely indestructible form it reaches a profundity in which all exhibition… Absolutely
- 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… Been
- Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied soul of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is then more impressive… Carcase
- Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel? Every Woman
- Let truth be told - women do as a rule live through such humiliations, and regain their spirits, and again look about them with an… Amiable