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Thomas Hardy quotes

English Novelist June 2, 1840 – January 11, 1928

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Thomas Hardy quote: "She was but a transient impression, half forgotten."
She was but a transient impression, half forgotten. Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy quote: "Don't that make your bosom plim?"
Don't that make your bosom plim? Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy quote: "I wish I had never been born--there or anywhere else."
I wish I had never been born--there or anywhere else. Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy quote: "I know you're there. I can smell your filthy cigars!'- Ursula..."
I know you're there. I can smell your filthy cigars!'- Ursula D'Ubervillesof Tess of The D'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy quote: "But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes..."
But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes. Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy quote: "How unexpected [are] the attacks of destiny!"
How unexpected [are] the attacks of destiny! Thomas Hardy
The atmosphere beneath is languorous, and is so tinged with azure that what artists call the middle distance partakes also of that hue, while the horizon beyond is of the deepest ultramarine. Thomas Hardy
There is always an inertia to be overcome in striking out a new line of conduct? not more in ourselves, it seems, than in circumscribing events, which appear as if leagued together to allow no novelties in the way of amelioration. Thomas Hardy
Half an hour afterwards Dick emerged from the inn, and if Fancy's lips had been real cherries, probably Dick's would have appeared deeply stained. Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy quote: "Some folks want their luck buttered."
Some folks want their luck buttered. Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy quote: "Some folk want their luck buttered."
Some folk want their luck buttered. Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy quote: "Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of..."
Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not. Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy quote: "If way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the..."
If way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst. Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy quote: "Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the..."
Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel. Thomas Hardy
My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker. Thomas Hardy

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