Thomas Hardy Quotes & Quotations

Thomas Hardy Quotes

» Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

» Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.

» Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.

» 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 you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child's play.

» Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.

» Ethelberta breathed a sort of exclamation, not right out, but stealthily, like a parson's damn.

» Don't you go believing in sayings, Picotee: they are all made by men, for their own advantages. Women who use public proverbs as a guide through events are those who have not ingenuity enough to make private ones as each event occurs.

» A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

» Aspect are within us, and who seems most kingly is king.

» Well: what we gain by science is, after all, sadness, as the Preacher saith. The more we know of the laws and nature of the Universe the more ghastly a business we perceive it all to be -- and the non-necessity of it.

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