Thomas Hardy Quotes

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• Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

  Thomas Hardy

  Change, Time, Surprise

  Thomas Hardy, Joanna Cullen Brown (1990). “Let me enjoy the earth: Thomas Hardy and nature”

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

  Thomas Hardy

  Women, Believe, Listening

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• Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

  Thomas Hardy

  Integrity, Ethics, Morality

  Thomas Hardy (2012). “Jude the Obscure”, p.267, Courier Corporation

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

  Thomas Hardy

  Pain, Drama, Episodes

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

  Thomas Hardy

  Tess Of The D Urbervilles, Lays

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman”, p.360, Thomas Hardy

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• And yet to every bad there is a worse.

  Thomas Hardy

  Criminals, Criminal Mind, Mind Opening

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “The Woodlanders”, p.238, Xist Publishing

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

  Thomas Hardy

  Men, Heaven, Religion

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

  Thomas Hardy

  Voice, Tree, Woods

  Thomas Hardy (2011). “Under the Greenwood Tree: Or the Mellstock Quire: a Rural Painting of the Dutch School”, p.9, The Floating Press

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

  Thomas Hardy

  Distance, Men

  Thomas Hardy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)”, p.1764, Delphi Classics

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• The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things.

  Thomas Hardy

  Novelists, Poet, Shows

  Thomas Hardy (1998). “Hardy: Selected Poems”, p.197, Penguin

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

  Thomas Hardy

  Acceptance, Looks, Anarchy

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• All romances end at marriage.

  Thomas Hardy

  Romance, Ends

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Far From the Madding Crowd (Diversion Classics)”, p.321, Diversion Books

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• 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

  Stars, Sky, Pulse

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD (British Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel”, p.12, e-artnow

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• 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.

  Thomas Hardy

  Love You, Long, Wanting You

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• 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.

  Thomas Hardy

  Heart, Hands, Perfect

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• 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

  Real, People, Honor

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• The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.

  Thomas Hardy

  Hope, Disappointment, Scar

  Thomas Hardy, Michael Millgate (1984). “The life and work of Thomas Hardy”

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

  Thomas Hardy

  Heart, Peace With God, Loss Of A Loved One

  Thomas Hardy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)”, p.3633, Delphi Classics

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• Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied soul of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is then more impressive than speech.

  Thomas Hardy

  Silence, Soul, Feelings

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Far from the Madding Crowd: Works of Hardy”, p.80, 谷月社

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

  Thomas Hardy

  Life, Strange, Deals

  Notebook, Feb. 1871

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• Remember that the best and greatest among mankind are those who do themselves no worldly good. Every successful man is more or less a selfish man. The devoted fail.

  Thomas Hardy

  Selfish, Successful, Men

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Jude the Obscure: Works of Hardy”, p.324, 谷月社

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• 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. That excessive regard of parents for their own children, and their dislike of other people's, is, like class-feeling, patriotism, save-your-own-soul-ism, and other virtues, a mean exclusiveness at bottom.

  Thomas Hardy

  Children, Mean, Thinking

  Jude the Obscure pt. 5, ch. 3 (1896)

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• We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.

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  Eye, Want, Mould

  Thomas Hardy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)”, p.911, Delphi Classics

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

  Thomas Hardy

  Truth Is, Offense, Concealed

  Thomas Hardy (1920). “The Writings of Thomas Hardy in Prose and Verse”

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• 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

  Pain, Eye, Lips

  Thomas Hardy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)”, p.1070, Delphi Classics

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