Thomas Hardy Quotes
Most popular Thomas Hardy Quotes
![Some folk want their luck buttered. - Thomas Hardy quote.](/img/q/24/35324A-some-folk-want-their-luck-buttered-thomas-hardy.png)
Some folk want their luck buttered.
![A novel is an impression, not an argument. - Thomas Hardy quote.](/img/q/04/36604A-a-novel-is-an-impression-not-argument-thomas-hardy.png)
A novel is an impression, not an argument.
![A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all. - Thomas Hardy quote.](/img/q/62/17662A-a-lover-without-indiscretion-is-no-lover-at-all-thomas-hardy.png)
A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
![Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity. - Thomas Hardy quote.](/img/q/22/37122A-patience-that-blending-of-moral-courage-with-physical-timidity-thomas-hardy.png)
Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.
![Nothing so stirs a man's conscience or excites his curiosity as a woman's silence. - Thomas Hardy quote.](/img/q/00/21600A-nothing-so-stirs-a-mans-conscience-or-excites-his-curiosity-thomas-hardy.png)
Nothing so stirs a man's conscience or excites his curiosity as a woman's silence.
![Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change. - Thomas Hardy quote.](/img/q/87/53487A-time-changes-everything-except-something-within-us-which-is-always-thomas-hardy.png)
Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
![If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the Inquisition might have let him alone. - Thomas Hardy quote.](/img/q/11/41611A-if-galileo-had-said-in-verse-that-world-moved-inquisition-thomas-hardy.png)
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the Inquisition might have let him alone.
![Persons with any weight of character carry, like planets, their atmospheres along with them in their orbits. - Thomas Hardy quote.](/img/q/36/27936A-persons-with-any-weight-of-character-carry-like-planets-their-thomas-hardy.png)
Persons with any weight of character carry, like planets, their atmospheres along with them in their orbits.
![I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker. - Thomas Hardy quote.](/img/q/86/33186A-i-am-more-interested-in-the-high-ideas-feeble-executant-thomas-hardy.png)
I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker.
![Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art. - Thomas Hardy quote.](/img/q/94/37494A-poetry-is-emotion-put-into-measure-emotion-must-come-by-thomas-hardy.png)
Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
![The fundamental error of their matrimonial union: that of having based a permanent contract on a temporary feeling . - Thomas Hardy quote.](/img/q/65/23665A-the-fundamental-error-of-their-matrimonial-union-that-having-based-thomas-hardy.png)
The fundamental error of their matrimonial union: that of having based a permanent contract on a temporary feeling .
![Let me enjoy the earth no less
Because the all-enacting Might
Which fashioned forth its loveliness
Had other aims than my delight. - Thomas Hardy quote.](/img/q/04/50304A-let-me-enjoy-the-earth-no-less-because-all-enacting-thomas-hardy.png)
Let me enjoy the earth no less Because the all-enacting Might Which fashioned forth its loveliness Had other aims than my delight.
![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 quote.](/img/q/33/7333A-everybody-is-so-talented-nowadays-that-only-people-i-care-thomas-hardy.png)
Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.
![Today has length, breadth, thickness, color, smell, voice. As soon as it becomes yesterday it is a thin layer among many layers, without substance, color, or articulate sound. - Thomas Hardy quote.](/img/q/83/41083A-today-has-length-breadth-thickness-color-smell-voice-as-soon-thomas-hardy.png)
Today has length, breadth, thickness, color, smell, voice. As soon as it becomes yesterday it is a thin layer among many layers, without substance, color, or articulate sound.
![Pessimism (or rather what is called such) is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at all; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. - Thomas Hardy quote.](/img/q/74/37274A-pessimism-or-rather-what-is-called-such-is-brief-playing-thomas-hardy.png)
Pessimism (or rather what is called such) is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at all; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed.