Thomas Hardy Quotes
Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
Quotes to Explore
-
My manners, abominable at times, can be sweet.
-
Buy other authors' books when you go to their events. Even if you aren't going to read it. Even if you are going to give it away. Even if you aren't interested. Not just for the author but for the bookstore. It's karma and just plain good manners.
-
Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.
-
We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
-
In Plato's republic, poets were considered subversive, a danger to the republic. I kind of relish that role. So I see my present role as a gadfly, to use my soapbox to promote my various ideas and obsesions.
-
Walt Whitman and Emerson are the poets who have given the world more than anyone else. Perhaps Whitman is not so widely read in England, but England never appreciates a poet until he is dead.
-
It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners.
-
Clothes and manners do not make the man, but where he is made they greatly improve his appearance.
-
Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the hand of a despot.
-
Good manners will often take people where neither money nor education will take them.
-
Irving Berlin has no place in American music. He is American music. Emotionally, he honestly absorbs the vibrations emanating from the people, manners and life of his time and, in turn, gives these impressions back to the world -- simplified, clarified and glorified.
-
It's all about who gets to work and making sure they're legally present in our country. And to do that nationally E-verify becomes a key component. It certainly needs to available, effective and as inexpensive as possible and that employer needs to use it as a tool. Some of the arguments that are made about how it works or does not work don't carry much water with me. I've already used it for several years. It works.
-
I have never studied the art of paying compliments to women; but I must say that if all that has been said by orators and poets since the creation of the world in praise of women were applied to the women of America, it would not do them justice for their conduct during this war.
-
The fact is there hasn't been a thrilling new erogenous zone discovered since de Sade.
-
Melancholy men of all others are most witty, which causeth many times a divine ravishment, and a kinde of Enthusiasmus, which stirreth them up to bee excellent Philosophers, Poets, Prophets, etc.
-
Arguments derived from probabilities are idle.
-
They (the poets) are to us in a manner the fathers and authors of the wisdom.
-
Even the good artisans fell into the same error as the poets; because they were good workmen they thought that they also knew all sorts of high matters, and this defect in them overshadowed their wisdom.
-
Generally, the arguments for same-sex marriage go along these lines: 'I have a civil right.' What the homosexual movement wants to do is to hitch their agenda to the civil rights movement, but I point out that this is illegitimate for a number of reasons. Number one, no black person has ever left his black-ness or changed his black-ness, but plenty of people have come out of the homosexual movement. What we need to do is distinguish between race and behavior.
-
Building a rainy-day fund during good times may not be politically popular, but it can pay off during the bad times.
-
If you look at some of the language in the basic writings of Hamas, there is that famous call to push the Israelis into the sea. Now, I would say that most Palestinian politicians on the ground say, of course that's not what we want, and even within Hamas there is some published debate about that claim, but until the claim is removed, it's still noxious.
-
Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
