All Thomas Hardy Quotes
- Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art. Acquired
- Fear is the mother of foresight. Fear
- My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading. Argument
- My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own. Ages
- The excessive regard of parents for their children, and their dislike of other people's is, like class feeling, patriotism, save-your-soul-ism, and other virtues, a mean… Bottom
- Some day my boat will come in, and with my luck I'll be at the airport. Airport
- Had other aims than my delight. Aims
- One whose every goal is accomplished and every dream fulfilled, lives not as a man but as an instrument of destiny Accomplished
- I have been looking for god for fifty years and I think if he had existed I should have discovered him Been
- Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would. All
- That man's silence is wonderful to listen to. Listen
- There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there. Blindness
- You was a good man, and did good things. Good
- War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading Good
- It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in a language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs. Chiefly
- Pessimism is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which… Arise
- A love without indiscretion is no lover at all. All
- Why should a man's mind have been thrown into such close, sad, sensational, inexplicable relations with such a precarious object as his body? Been
- The only superiority in women that is tolerable to therival sex is, as a rule, that of the unconscious kind; but a superiority which recognizes… Capture
- 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… Across