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Quotes from The Hand of Ethelberta — Thomas Hardy

1840–1928 England

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Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.

The Hand of Ethelberta (1876)

Work hard and be poor, do nothing and get more.

The Hand of Ethelberta (1876)

Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.

The Hand of Ethelberta (1876)

You calculated how to be uncalculating, and are natural by art!

The Hand of Ethelberta (1876)

A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all. Circumspection and devotion are a contradiction in terms.

The Hand of Ethelberta (1876)

I have seldom known a man cunning with his brush who was not simple with his tongue; or, indeed, any skill in particular that was not allied to general stupidity.

The Hand of Ethelberta (1876)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Thomas Hardy (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.