Thomas Hardy Quotes

Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks.

You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.

But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.

If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.

A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.

There's a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.

It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.

If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.

Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.

The defective can be more than the entire.

Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.

Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.

Women accept their destiny more readily than men.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

I shall do one thing in this life-one thing certain-this is, love you, and long of you, and keep wanting you till I die.

Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.

All romances end at marriage.

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

If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst.

To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.

Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?

Some folk want their luck buttered.

Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.

Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.

And yet to every bad there is a worse.

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.

War makes good history but peace is poor reading.

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