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

More quotes by Thomas Hardy

Image
Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks.
Thomas Hardy
Image
My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker.
Thomas Hardy
Image
Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.
Thomas Hardy
Image
Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
Thomas Hardy
Image
If we be doomed to marry, we marry if we be doomed to remain single we do.
Thomas Hardy
Image
Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
Thomas Hardy
Image
It was then that the ecstasy and the dream began, in which emotion was the matter of the universe, and matter but an adventitious intrusion likely to hinder you from spinning where you wanted to spin.
Thomas Hardy
Image
I agree to the conditions, Angel because you know best what my punishment ought to be only - only - don't make it more than I can bear!
Thomas Hardy
Image
Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
Thomas Hardy
Image
Nobody had beheld the gravitation of the two into one
Thomas Hardy
Image
We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
Thomas Hardy
Image
If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst.
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
My wicked heart will ramble on in spite of myself. (Arabella)
Thomas Hardy
Image
To have lost is less disturbing than to wonder if we may possibly have won and Eustacia could now, like other people at such a stage, take a standing-point outside herself, observe herself as a disinterested spectator, and think what a sport for Heaven this woman Eustacia was.
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
Did you say the stars were worlds, Tess? Yes. All like ours? I don't know, but I think so. They sometimes seem to be like the apples on our stubbard-tree. Most of them splendid and sound - a few blighted. Which do we live on - a splendid one or a blighted one? A blighted one.
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
Men thin away to insignificance and oblivion quite as often by not making the most of good spirits when they have them as by lacking good spirits when they are indispensable.
Thomas Hardy
Image
Sometimes I shrink from your knowing what I have felt for you, and sometimes I am distressed that all of it you will never know.
Thomas Hardy