Quote

She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, hated at tea parties, feared in shops, and loved at crises.

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
Family
Parties
Stuff
Hated
Mother
Crisis
Crises
Great
Generation
Feared
Made
Generations
Indispensable
Men
Loved
Tea
High
Shops
Party
Mothers

More quotes by Thomas Hardy

Image
They spoke very little of their mutual feeling pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.
Thomas Hardy
Image
Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.
Thomas Hardy
Image
He wished she knew his impressions but he would as soon have thought of carrying an odour in a net as of attempting to convey the intangibilities of his feeling in the coarse meshes of language. So he remained silent.
Thomas Hardy
Image
War makes good history but peace is poor reading.
Thomas Hardy
Image
A novel is an impression, not an argument and there the matter must rest.
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
A blaze of love and extinction, was better than a lantern glimmer of the same which should last long years.
Thomas Hardy
Image
That one true heart was left behind! What feeling do we ever find, to equal among human kind , a dog's fidelity!
Thomas Hardy
Image
War makes rattling good history.
Thomas Hardy
Image
Nobody had beheld the gravitation of the two into one
Thomas Hardy
Image
Bless thy simplicity, Tess
Thomas Hardy
Image
Pessimism is playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child's play.
Thomas Hardy
Image
We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.
Thomas Hardy
Image
Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.
Thomas Hardy
Image
Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
Thomas Hardy
Image
I am the family face flesh perishes, I live on, projecting trait and trace through time to times anon, and leaping from place to place over oblivion.
Thomas Hardy
Image
You could sometimes see her twelfth year in her cheeks, or her ninth sparkling from her eyes and even her fifth would flit over the curves of her mouth now and then.
Thomas Hardy
Image
Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
Thomas Hardy
Image
We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
Thomas Hardy
Image
So do flux and reflux--the rhythm of change--alternate and persist in everything under the sky.
Thomas Hardy