Thomas Hardy Quotes, Thoughts and images

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

War makes good history but peace is poor reading.

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

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

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

And yet to every bad there is a worse.

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

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

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

Some folk want their luck buttered.

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

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

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

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

All romances end at marriage.

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

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.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Women accept their destiny more readily than men.

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

Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.

The defective can be more than the entire.

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

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

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

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

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

A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.

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

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

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

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