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Thomas Hardy
Age: 87 †
Born: 1840
Born: June 2
Died: 1928
Died: January 28
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More quotes by Thomas Hardy
Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
Thomas Hardy
If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst.
Thomas Hardy
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
A novel is an impression, not an argument and there the matter must rest.
Thomas Hardy
That it would always be summer and autumn, and you always courting me, and always thinking as much of me as you have done through the past summertime!
Thomas Hardy
That cold accretion called the world, so terrible in the mass, is so non formidable, even pitiable, in its units.
Thomas Hardy
Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?
Thomas Hardy
Their position was perhaps the happiest of all positions in the social scale, being above the line at which neediness ends, and below the line at which the convenances begin to cramp natural feeling, and the stress of threadbare modishness makes too little of enough.
Thomas Hardy
Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
Thomas Hardy
Tis because we be on a blighted star, and not a sound one, isn't it Tess?
Thomas Hardy
Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.
Thomas Hardy
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
Nobody had beheld the gravitation of the two into one
Thomas Hardy
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
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
War makes rattling good history.
Thomas Hardy
Black chaos comes, and the fettered gods of the earth say, Let there be light.
Thomas Hardy
A blaze of love and extinction, was better than a lantern glimmer of the same which should last long years.
Thomas Hardy
The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
Thomas Hardy
Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks.
Thomas Hardy