857 Quotes by Thomas Hardy

By experience,” says Roger Ascham, “we find out a short way by a long wandering.

While there’s life there’s hope is a conviction not so entirely unknown to the “betrayed” as some amiable theorists would have us believe.

Music drew an angel down, said the poet: but what is that to drawing down worlds!

Nobody had beheld the gravitation of the two into one.

An unedified palate is the irrepressible cloven foot of the upstart. The.

We are acting by the letter; and ’the letter killeth.

When you’ve made up your mind to marry, take the first respectable body that comes to hand – she’s as good as any other; they be all alike in groundwork: ’tis only in the flourishes there’s a difference.

I have nobody in the world to fight my battles for me; but no mercy is shown. Yet if a thousand of you sneer and say things against me, I will not be put down!

And if you hear a frog jump into the pond with a flounce like a stone thrown in, be sure you run and tell me, because it is a sign of rain.