857 Quotes by Thomas Hardy

She was but a transient impression, half forgotten.

Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honour as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.

Once victim, always victim -- that's the law!

They spoke very little of their mutual feeling; pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.

Smile out; but still suffer: / The paths of love are rougher / Than thoroughfares of stones.

Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.

Indeed, he seemed to approach the grave as a hyperbolic curve approaches a straight line -- less directly as he got nearer, till it was doubtful if he would ever reach it at all.

Remember that the best and greatest among mankind are those who do themselves no worldly good. Every successful man is more or less a selfish man. The devoted fail...

I need not go / Through sleet and snow / To where I know / She waits for me: / She will tarry there / Till I find it fair, / And have time to spare / From company.