857 Quotes by Thomas Hardy

Somerset looked down on the mouth of the tunnel. The popular common place that science, steam, and travel must be always unromantic and hideous was not proven at this spot.

I can recall no word / Of anything he did; / For me he is a man who died and was interred / To leave a pyramid.

A novel is an impression, not an argument; and there the matter must rest.

The beggarly question of parentage--what is it, after all? What does it matter, when you come to think of it, whether a child is yours by blood or not? All the little ones of our time are collectively the children of us adults of the time, and entitled to our general care.

The beautiful things of the earth become more dear as they elude pursuit.

The fundamental error of their matrimonial union; that of having based a permanent contract on a temporary feeling.

This scene, like my own life,' I said, 'is one / Where many glooms abide; / Toned by its fortune to a deadly dun-- / Lightless on every side.

Purism, whether in grammar or in vocabulary, almost always means ignorance. Language was made before grammar, not grammar before language.

Clouds spout upon her / Their waters amain / In ruthless disdain, – / Her who but lately / Had shivered with pain / As at touch of dishonour / If there had lit on her / So coldly, so straightly / Such arrows of rain