Quote by Thomas Hardy Download Open image ““The chief pleasure connected with asking an opinion lies in not adopting it.”” — Thomas Hardy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“To sway opinion should never be the motive of argument. I argue only for pleasure.” — A.E. Marling Copy Share Image
“Just because people say something's great, it doesn't mean you have to agree, not if you don't actually enjoy it.” — Abby McDonald Copy Share Image
“Never criticize anything too strongly that you yourself face trouble in accepting it in times of “NO OPTIONS”.” — Neeraj Bhanot Copy Share Image
“The question is how to arrive at your opinions and not what your opinions are.” — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“This is morally problematic when personal decision is confused with personal opinion.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“It is better to try to form a learned opinion than to dispense an ill-conceived one and rush to the judgment of others.” — Dodinsky Copy Share Image
“He grew away from old associations, and saw something new in life and humanity. Secondarily, he made close acquaintance with phenomena which he had… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“She was in a sound sleep, Jude, dying of anxiety lest she should have caught a chill which might permanently injure her, was glad to hear the regular breathing. He softly went nearer to her, and observed that a warm flush now rosed her hitherto blue cheeks, and felt that her hanging hand was no longer cold. Then he stood… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share
Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings had not darkened because of her grief, nor sickened because of her pain. She might have seen that what had bowed her head so profoundly -the thought of the world's concern at her situation- was found… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share
You could sometimes see her twelfth year in her cheeks, or her ninth sparkling from her eyes; and even her fifth would flit over… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“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 joyous poets of three hundred years ago; but a very tolerable, well-wearing May, that the average rustic would willingly have compounded for in lieu of Mays occasionally fairer, but usually more foul.” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“I was court-martialed in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“It being the first time in his life that he had touched female fingers under water, Dick duly registered the sensation as rather a… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“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… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
