Thomas Hardy Quotes

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Thomas Hardy

Profession : Novelist

Birth : June 2, 1840

A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.

Thomas Hardy

Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.

Thomas Hardy

A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

Thomas Hardy

The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.

Thomas Hardy

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

Thomas Hardy

Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it.

Thomas Hardy

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

Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown.

Thomas Hardy

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

Thomas Hardy

Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.

Thomas Hardy

My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own.

Thomas Hardy