Quote

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

Thomas Hardy

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Thomas Hardy
Age: 87 †
Born: 1840
Born: June 2
Died: 1928
Died: January 28
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Dorchester
Dorset
Values
Performance
Upon
Performances
Jobs
Develop
Others
Early
Reaches
Persons
Depends
Enables
Person
Late
Finish
Men
Value
Aging
Time
Age
Useless

More quotes by Thomas Hardy

Image
We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
Thomas Hardy
Image
That aspects are within us and who seems Most kingly is the King.
Thomas Hardy
Image
Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
Thomas Hardy
Image
You, and those like you, take your fill of pleasure on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and black with sorrow and then it is a fine thing, when you have had enough of that, to think of securing your pleasure in heaven by becoming converted!
Thomas Hardy
Image
We learn that it is not the rays which bodies absorb, but those which they reject, that give them the colours they are known by and in the same way people are specialized by their dislikes and antagonisms, whilst their goodwill is looked upon as no attribute at all.
Thomas Hardy
Image
Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.
Thomas Hardy
Image
War makes rattling good history.
Thomas Hardy
Image
Nobody had beheld the gravitation of the two into one
Thomas Hardy
Image
If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst.
Thomas Hardy
Image
you are absolutely the most ethereal, least sensual woman I ever knew to exist without inhuman sexlessness.
Thomas Hardy
Image
It was terribly beautiful to Tess today, for since her eyes last fell upon it she had learnt that the serpent hisses where the sweet birds sing.
Thomas Hardy
Image
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
Image
Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
Thomas Hardy
Image
That cold accretion called the world, so terrible in the mass, is so non formidable, even pitiable, in its units.
Thomas Hardy
Image
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.
Thomas Hardy
Image
The defective can be more than the entire.
Thomas Hardy
Image
It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession
Thomas Hardy
Image
If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables?
Thomas Hardy
Image
Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
Thomas Hardy
Image
Let truth be told - women do as a rule live through such humiliations, and regain their spirits, and again look about them with an interested eye. While there's life there's hope is a connviction not so entirely unknown to the betrayed as some amiable theorists would have us believe.
Thomas Hardy