Quote

If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.

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
Offense
Truth
Better
Come
Concealed

More quotes by Thomas Hardy

Image
Once let a maiden admit the possibility of her being stricken with love for some one at a certain hour and place, and the thing is as good as done.
Thomas Hardy
Image
The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
Thomas Hardy
Image
There's a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
Thomas Hardy
Image
I shall do one thing in this life-one thing certain-this is, love you, and long of you, and keep wanting you till I die.
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
Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
Thomas Hardy
Image
Where we are would be Paradise to me, if you would only make it so.
Thomas Hardy
Image
Somebody might have come along that way who would have asked him his trouble, and might have cheered him by saying that his notions were further advanced than those of his grammarian. But nobody did come, because nobody does and under the crushing recognition of his gigantic error Jude continued to wish himself out of the world.
Thomas Hardy
Image
She was but a transient impression, half forgotten.
Thomas Hardy
Image
The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses its true history lay, not among things done, but among things willed.
Thomas Hardy
Image
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
Thomas Hardy
Image
All romances end at marriage.
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
War makes good history but peace is poor reading.
Thomas Hardy
Image
It was still early, and the sun's lower limb was just free of the hill, his rays, ungenial and peering, addressed the eye rather than the touch as yet.
Thomas Hardy
Image
Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.
Thomas Hardy
Image
Bless thy simplicity, Tess
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
It may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting out of love as there is for getting in. Some people look upon marriage as a short cut that way, but it has been known to fail.
Thomas Hardy
Image
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
Thomas Hardy