A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all. Circumspection and devotion are a contradiction in terms.
- Thomas Hardy Quote

A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
- Thomas Hardy Quote

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.
- Thomas Hardy Quote

Aspect are within us, and who seems most kingly is king.
- Thomas Hardy Quote

Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would.
- Thomas Hardy Quote

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
- Thomas Hardy Quote

Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.
- Thomas Hardy Quote

Fear is the mother of foresight.
- Thomas Hardy Quote

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
- Thomas Hardy Quote

I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on.
- Thomas Hardy Quote

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

If way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst.
- Thomas Hardy Quote

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in a language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
- Thomas Hardy Quote

Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
- Thomas Hardy Quote

My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own.
- Thomas Hardy Quote

No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.
- Thomas Hardy Quote

Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.
- Thomas Hardy Quote

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
- Thomas Hardy Quote

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.
- Thomas Hardy Quote

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

The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
- Thomas Hardy Quote

The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.
- Thomas Hardy Quote

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.
- Thomas Hardy Quote

There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.
- Thomas Hardy Quote

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
- Thomas Hardy Quote

Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown.
- Thomas Hardy Quote

You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them.
- Thomas Hardy Quote