Thomas Hardy Quotes & Quotations

Thomas Hardy Quotes

» If all hearts were open and all desires known -- as they would be if people showed their souls -- how many gapings, sighings, clenched fists, knotted brows, broad grins, and red eyes should we see in the market-place!

» 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 late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

» The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

» Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.

» Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.

» I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on, projecting trait and trace through time to times anon, and leaping from place to place over oblivion.

» It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

» A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all. Circumspection and devotion are a contradiction in terms.

» Some folk want their luck buttered.

» If way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst.

Who Said It?

Who Said: "Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side..." Click To See

Daily Famous Quote

Who Said: "No one can transcend their own individuality." Subscribe

Noyemi Famous Quotes

Famous Quotes & Quotations by Famous and Not-So-Famous People