857 Quotes by Thomas Hardy

Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.

That one true heart was left behind! What feeling do we ever find, to equal among human kind , a dog's fidelity!

My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own.

Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.

Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it.

Pessimism is playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child's play.

Aspect are within us, and who seems most kingly is king.

The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.

Where once we danced, where once we sang, Gentlemen, / The floors are shrunken, cobwebs hang.