Thomas Hardy Quotes
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That one true heart was left behind! What feeling do we ever find, to equal among human kind , a dog's fidelity!
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The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
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Everybody must be managed. Queens must be managed. Kings must be managed, for men want managing almost as much as women, and that's saying a good deal.
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There's a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
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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.
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She was but a transient impression, half forgotten.
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Sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonized at the thought of treating a man cruelly, she encourages him to love her while she doesn't love him at all. Then, when she sees him suffering, her remorse sets in, and she does what she can to repair the wrong.
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Many...have learned that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements, but as to their subjective experiences. The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller, more dramatic life than the pachydermatous king.
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In the ill-judged execution of the well-judged plan of things the call seldom produces the comer, the man to love rarely coincides with the hour for loving. Nature does not often say 'See!' to her poor creature at a time when seeing can lead to happy doing; or reply 'Here!' to a body's cry of 'Where?' till the hide-and-seek has become an irksome outworn game.
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Do you know that I have undergone three quarters of this labour entirely for the sake of the fourth quarter?
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My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
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Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
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We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
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The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things.
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When yellow lights struggle with blue shades in hairlike lines.
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How I have tried and tried to be a splendid woman, and how destiny has been against me! ...I do not deserve my lot! ...O, the cruelty of putting me into this ill-conceived world! I was capable of much; but I have been injured and blighted and crushed by things beyond my control! O, how hard it is of Heaven to devise such tortures for me, who have done no harm to heaven at all!
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What is it, Angel?" she said, starting up. "Have they come for me?" "Yes, dearest," he said. "They have come." "It is as it should be," she murmured. "Angel, I am almost glad—yes, glad! This happiness could not have lasted. It was too much. I have had enough; and now I shall not live for you to despise me!" She stood up, shook herself, and went forward, neither of the men having moved. "I am ready," she said quietly.
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All romances end at marriage.
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That cold accretion called the world, so terrible in the mass, is so non formidable, even pitiable, in its units.
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You are Joseph the dreamer of dreams, dear Jude. And a tragic Don Quixote. And sometimes you are St. Stephen, who, while they were stoning him, could see Heaven opened. Oh, my poor friend and comrade, you'll suffer yet!
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This hobble of being alive is rather serious, don’t you think so?
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We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.
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If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
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Where we are would be Paradise to me, if you would only make it so.