39 Quotations by Thomas Hardy
- 21. Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.
- 22. Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.
- 23. Pessimism is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only v ...
- 24. Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired ...
- 25. Some folk want their luck buttered.
- 26. Some folk want their luck buttered.
- 27. That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.
- 28. The excessive regard of parents for their children, and their dislike of other people's is, like cla ...
- 29. The instinctive act of humankind was to stand and listen, and learn how the trees on the right and t ...
- 30. The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
- 31. The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the cou ...
- 32. The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never ...
- 33. The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is ...
- 34. There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.
- 35. Well: what we gain by science is, after all, sadness, as the Preacher saith. The more we know of the ...
- 36. Well: what we gain by science is, after all, sadness, as the Preacher saith. The more we know of the ...
- 37. Why should a man's mind have been thrown into such close, sad, sensational, inexplicable relations w ...
- 38. Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or help ...
- 39. You was a good man, and did good things.
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