Words matter. These are the best Thomas Hardy Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.
Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.
You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them.
Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you’d treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown.
Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.
The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.
Some folk want their luck buttered.
Aspect are within us, and who seems most kingly is king.
Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
And yet to every bad there is a worse.
A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
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.
And yet to every bad there is a worse.
No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.
There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn’t there.
Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it.
My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own.
Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can’t get out of it if we would.
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.
