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Thomas Hardy quotes

English Novelist June 2, 1840 – January 11, 1928

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Somebody might have come along that way who would have asked him his trouble, and might have cheered him by saying that his notions were further advanced than those of his grammarian. But nobody did come, because nobody does; and under the crushing recognition of his gigantic error Jude continued to wish himself out of the world. Thomas Hardy
Perhaps you are making a cat's paw of me with Phillotson all this time. Upon my word it almost seems so--to see you sitting up there so prim. Thomas Hardy
...she moved about in a mental cloud of many-coloured idealities, which eclipsed all sinister contingencies by its brightness. Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy quote: "You was a good man, and did good things."
You was a good man, and did good things. Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy quote: "If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals..."
If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables? Thomas Hardy
The trees have inquisitive eyes, haven't they? -that is, seem as if they had. And the river says,-'Why do ye trouble me with your looks?' And you seem to see numbers of to-morrows just all in a line, the first of them the biggest and clearest, the others getting smaller and smaller as they stand further away; but they all seem very fierce and cruel and as if they said, 'I'm coming! Beware of me! Beware of me! Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy quote: "Fear is the mother of foresight."
Fear is the mother of foresight. Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy quote: "The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the..."
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes. Thomas Hardy
You simply mean that you flirted outrageously with him, poor old chap, and then repented, and to make reparation, married him, though you tortured yourself to death by doing it. Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy quote: "But some women only require an emergency to make them fit for..."
But some women only require an emergency to make them fit for one. Thomas Hardy
Human beings, in their generous endeavour to construct a hypothesis that shall not degrade a First Cause, have always hesitated to conceive a dominant power of lower moral quality than their own; and, even while they sit down and weep by the waters of Babylon, invent excuses for the oppression which prompts their tears. Thomas Hardy
The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things. Thomas Hardy
character; but, being without the power to combine them, the comprehension became engaged with trivialities whilst waiting for the will to direct it, and the force wasted itself in useless grooves through unheeding the comprehension. Thomas Hardy
Is it necessary to add that the echoes of many characteristic tales, dating from that picturesque time, still linger about here, in more or less fragmentary form to be caught by the attentive ear? Some of them I have repeated; most of them I have forgotten; one I have never repeated, and assuredly can never forget. Thomas Hardy
The yard was a little centre of regeneration. Here, with keen edges and smooth curves, were forms in the exact likeness of those he had seen abraded and time-eaten on the walls. These were the ideas in modern prose which the lichened colleges presented in old poetry. Even some of those antiques might have been called prose when they were new. They had done nothing but wait, and had become poetical. How easy to the smallest building; how impossible to most men. Thomas Hardy

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