Thomas Hardy Quotes

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

Time, Change, Within

The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
Thomas Hardy

Hope, Ultimate, Leaves

A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
Thomas Hardy

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

Religion, Him, Heaven

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

Men, Woman, Feelings

And yet to every bad there is a worse.
Thomas Hardy

The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
Thomas Hardy

Evil, Impossible, Far

There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.
Thomas Hardy

Worse, Seeing, Condition

You was a good man, and did good things.
Thomas Hardy

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.
Thomas Hardy

Pain, Both, Tongue

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

Care, Real, Honor

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

The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.
Thomas Hardy

Mind, Decision, Moment

The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.
Thomas Hardy

Stars, Body, Sky

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
Thomas Hardy

Poetry, Alone, Him

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

Beautiful, Woman, After

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
Thomas Hardy

Moral, Reasons, Immoral

I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
Thomas Hardy

Death, Said, Absence

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.
Thomas Hardy

Silence, Wonderful, Listen

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

Evil, Impossible, Far

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

Within, Seems, King

Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would.
Thomas Hardy

Nature, Society, Law

Fear is the mother of foresight.
Thomas Hardy

Fear, Mother, Foresight

Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it.
Thomas Hardy

Enemy, Give, Means

My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.
Thomas Hardy

Peace, Good, History

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Biography

Nationality: English

Born: June 2, 1840

Died: January 11, 1928

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