Thomas Hardy quotes Born: 06/02/1840 Died: 01/11/1928 Country: united_kingdom

• It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in a language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs. (Thomas Hardy) [feelings/language/men]
• The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him. (Thomas Hardy) [religion]
• Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. (Thomas Hardy)
• No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure. (Thomas Hardy) [profit/pleasure]
• The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes. (Thomas Hardy) [hope-disappointment]
• Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons. (Thomas Hardy) [thing]
• Where once we danced, where once we sang, Gentlemen, / The floors are shrunken, cobwebs hang. (Thomas Hardy)
• Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change. (Thomas Hardy) [time/changes/change]
• Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity. (Thomas Hardy) [patience/courage]
• You, and those like you, take your fill of pleasure on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and black with sorrow; and then it is a fine thing, when you have had enough of that, to think of securing your pleasure in heaven by becoming converted. (Thomas Hardy) [take/pleasure/life/sorrow]
• A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly. (Thomas Hardy) [ugly]
• Their lives were ruined,he thought; ruined by the fundamental error of their matrimonial union: that of having based a permanent contract on a temporary feeling . . . (Thomas Hardy) [contract/feeling]
• Some folk want their luck buttered. (Thomas Hardy) [luck]
• Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them. (Thomas Hardy) [poets/morals/etiquette/argument]
• The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him. (Thomas Hardy) [religion]
• Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle. (Thomas Hardy)
• 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. (Thomas Hardy) [family/face/trace/time]
• A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all. Circumspection and devotion are a contradiction in terms. (Thomas Hardy) [devotion]
• Some folk want their luck buttered. (Thomas Hardy) [luck]
• It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs. (Thomas Hardy) [feelings/language/men]
• If way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst. (Thomas Hardy) [look]
• Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change. (Thomas Hardy) [time/changes/change]
• Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art. (Thomas Hardy) [poetry/measure/nature/measure]
• Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity. (Thomas Hardy) [patience/courage]
• Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity. (Thomas Hardy) [people/care]
• A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible. (Thomas Hardy) [evil/evil/avoidance]
• 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. (Thomas Hardy) [science/sadness/more/nature]
• Aspect are within us, and who seems most kingly is king. (Thomas Hardy) [king]
• Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel. (Thomas Hardy) [words]
• 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. (Thomas Hardy) [value/age/men]
• 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! (Thomas Hardy) [desires/people/eyes]

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