Thomas Hardy Quotes

A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all. Circumspection and devotion are a contradiction in terms.

Some folk want their luck buttered.

Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.

Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honour as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.

Once victim, always victim—that's the law!

Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.

Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.