Quote: It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in a language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs. [Thomas Hardy]
Quote: The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him. [Thomas Hardy]
Quote: Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. [Thomas Hardy]
Quote: No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure. [Thomas Hardy]
Quote: The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes. [Thomas Hardy]
Quote: Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons. [Thomas Hardy]
Quote: Where once we danced, where once we sang, Gentlemen, / The floors are shrunken, cobwebs hang. [Thomas Hardy]
Quote: Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change. [Thomas Hardy]
Quote: Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity. [Thomas Hardy]
Quote: 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]
Quote: 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]
Quote: 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]
Quote: Some folk want their luck buttered. [Thomas Hardy]
Quote: Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them. [Thomas Hardy]
Quote: Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle. [Thomas Hardy]
Quote: 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]
Quote: A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all. Circumspection and devotion are a contradiction in terms. [Thomas Hardy]
Quote: It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs. [Thomas Hardy]
Quote: If way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst. [Thomas Hardy]
Quote: Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art. [Thomas Hardy]
Quote: 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]
Quote: A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible. [Thomas Hardy]
Quote: 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]
Quote: Aspect are within us, and who seems most kingly is king. [Thomas Hardy]
Quote: Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel. [Thomas Hardy]