857 Quotes by Thomas Hardy

Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.

Why didn’t you tell me there was danger? Why didn’t you warn me? Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks; but I never had the chance of discovering in that way; and you did not help me!

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.

He knelt and bent lower, till her breath warmed his face, and in a moment his cheek was in contact with hers. She was sleeping soundly, and upon her eyelashes there lingered tears...

Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown.

Nobody had beheld the gravitation of the two into one

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.

Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks…