Thomas Hardy Quotes
1840–1928 England
Thomas Hardy OM (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English novelist, short story writer and poet.
- England
- Novelists
- Poets
- Short story writers
Also known as: Hardy, Thomas
134 quotes
Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.
To discover evil in a new friend is to most people only an additional experience.
How bewitched I was! How could there be any good in a woman that everybody spoke ill of?
Work hard and be poor, do nothing and get more.
See what deceits love sows in honest minds!
No man can change the common lot to rare.
Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
You calculated how to be uncalculating, and are natural by art!
All that blooth means heavy autumn work for him and his hands.
The world-imprinting power of perished Rome.
A novel is an impression, not an argument.
It's gunnery practice out at sea
Just as before you went below;
The world is as it used to be.
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Thomas Hardy (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.