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Thomas Hardy Quotes

«Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would»
Author: Thomas Hardy (Novelist, Poet) | About: Cruelty | Keywords: pervading
«Well: what we gain by science is, after all, sadness, as the Preacher saith. The more we know of the laws and nature of the Universe the more ghastly a business we perceive it all to be - and the non-necessity of it.»
Author: Thomas Hardy (Novelist, Poet) | Keywords: ghastly, preacher
«If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.»
«There's not a modest maiden elf / But dreads the final Trumpet, / Lest half of her should rise herself, / And half some sturdy strumpet!»
«Smile out; but still suffer: / The paths of love are rougher / Than thoroughfares of stones.»
«Some folk want their luck buttered.»
Author: Thomas Hardy (Novelist, Poet) | About: Luck | Keywords: buttered, folk
«And at home by the fire, whenever you look up, there I shall be - and whenever I look up, there you shall be»
Author: Thomas Hardy (Novelist, Poet) | Keywords: look up
«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.»
«A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.»
«All her shining keys will be took from her, and her cupboards opened, and things a' didn't wish seen, anybody will see; and her little wishes and ways will all be as nothing.»
Author: Thomas Hardy (Novelist, Poet) | Keywords: cupboard, cupboards, keys

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