857 Quotes by Thomas Hardy

I sat depressed; till, later, / My Love came; / But something in the chamber / Dimmed our flame, — / An emanation, making our due words fall tame,

The perfect woman, you see is a working-woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who uses her hands and her head and her heart for the good of others.

And I heard them say "Home!" and I knew them / For souls of the felled / On the earth's nether bord / Under Capricorn, whither they'd warred, / And I neared in my awe, and gave heedfulness to them / With breathings inheld.

The perfect woman, you see is a working woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who uses her hands and her head and her heart for the good of others.

Quiz the few poor treasures hid there, con the letters kept by me.

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

Prepared a sinister mate / For her — so gaily great — / A Shape of Ice, for the time fat and dissociate.

Pessimism is, in brief, playing the sure game. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed.

If it be in the dusk when, like an eyelid's soundless blink, / The dewfall-hawk comes crossing the shades to alight / Upon the wind-warped upland thorn, a gazer may think, / 'To him this must have been a familiar sight.'