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Thomas Hardy - From the Beauty category:
Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized. (Thomas Hardy)
Thomas Hardy - From the Belief category:
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone. (Thomas Hardy)
Thomas Hardy - From the Belief category:
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened. (Thomas Hardy)
Thomas Hardy - From the Change category:
Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change. (Thomas Hardy)
Thomas Hardy - From the Chaos category:
- The Return of the Native...
Black chaos comes, and the fettered gods of the earth say, Let there be light. (Thomas Hardy)
Thomas Hardy - From the Complaining category:
Some folk want their luck buttered. (Thomas Hardy)
Thomas Hardy - From the Danger category:
- Far from the Madding Crowd...
Why didn't you tell me there was danger? Why didn't you warn me? (Thomas Hardy)
Thomas Hardy - From the Desire category:
But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes. (Thomas Hardy)
Thomas Hardy - From the Destiny category:
How unexpected the attacks of destiny! (Thomas Hardy)
Thomas Hardy - From the Disappointment category:
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes. (Thomas Hardy)
Thomas Hardy - From the Dreams category:
- Jude the Obscure...
But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small. (Thomas Hardy)
Thomas Hardy - From the Earth category:
Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight. (Thomas Hardy)
Thomas Hardy - From the Emotion category:
Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art. (Thomas Hardy)
Thomas Hardy - From the Gender category:
It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs. (Thomas Hardy)
Thomas Hardy - From the Greatness category:
- Jude the Obscure...
Remember that the best and greatest among mankind are those who do themselves no worldly good. (Thomas Hardy)
Thomas Hardy - From the Happiness category:
Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain. (Thomas Hardy)
Thomas Hardy - From the Immortality category:
I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on. (Thomas Hardy)
Thomas Hardy - From the Life category:
-Tess of the d'Urbervilles...
This hobble of being alive is rather serious, don't you think so? (Thomas Hardy)
Thomas Hardy - From the Light category:
Tess of the d'Urbervilles...
When yellow lights struggle with blue shades in hairlike lines. (Thomas Hardy)
Thomas Hardy - From the Music category:
-Under the Greenwood Tree...
There's a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating. (Thomas Hardy)
Thomas Hardy - From the Nature category:
To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature. (Thomas Hardy)
Thomas Hardy - From the Obscurity category:
Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity. (Thomas Hardy)
Thomas Hardy - From the Opposites category:
If way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst. (Thomas Hardy)
Thomas Hardy - From the Opposites category:
All things merge in one another - good into evil, generosity into justice, religion into politics... (Thomas Hardy)
Thomas Hardy - From the Patience category:
Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity. (Thomas Hardy)
Thomas Hardy - From the Perfection category:
-Jude the Obscure...
What at night had been perfect and ideal was by day the more or less defective real. (Thomas Hardy)
Thomas Hardy - From the Pleasure category:
No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure. (Thomas Hardy)
Thomas Hardy - From the Poetry category:
My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own. (Thomas Hardy)
Thomas Hardy - From the Poetry category:
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)
Thomas Hardy - From the Questions category:
I want to question my belief, so that what is left after I have questioned it, will be even stronger. (Thomas Hardy)
Thomas Hardy - From the Religion category:
The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him. (Thomas Hardy)
Thomas Hardy - From the Silence category:
A man's silence is wonderful to listen to. (Thomas Hardy)
Thomas Hardy - From the Silence category:
Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied soul of feeling, wandering without its carcase, and it is then more impressive than speech. (Thomas Hardy)
Thomas Hardy - From the Skill category:
My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskillful 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)
Thomas Hardy - From the Standards category:
I forgot the defective can be more than the whole. (Thomas Hardy)
Thomas Hardy - From the Strength category:
-Far from the Madding Crowd...
Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness. (Thomas Hardy)
Thomas Hardy - From the Suffering category:
There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound. (Thomas Hardy)
Thomas Hardy - From the Universe category:
The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse. (Thomas Hardy)
Thomas Hardy - From the Writing category:
A novel is an impression, not an argument. (Thomas Hardy)
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