Thomas Hardy Quotes

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

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  Women, Believe, Listening

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

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  Pain, Drama, Episodes

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

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  Men, Heaven, Religion

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• And yet to every bad there is a worse.

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  Criminals, Criminal Mind, Mind Opening

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

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

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  Change, Time, Surprise

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

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

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  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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• Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

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  Integrity, Ethics, Morality

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

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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.

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  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.

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  Acceptance, Looks, Anarchy

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

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

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  Distance, Men

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

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• Some folk want their luck buttered.

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  Business, Luck, Want

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “The Mayor of Casterbridge”, p.107, Thomas Hardy

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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.

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  Heart, Hands, Perfect

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• People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's pleasure with a life's discomfort.

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  People, Goes On, May

  Jude the Obscure pt. 5, ch. 1 (1896)

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• Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.

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  Experience, Measurement, Intensity

  Thomas Hardy (1873). “A Pair of Blue Eyes”, p.273

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• A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.

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  Love, Heart, Discretion

  Hand of Ethelberta (1876) ch. 20

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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.

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  Love You, Long, Wanting You

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• War makes good history but peace is poor reading.

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  Peace, War, Reading

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• Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.

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  Love Is, Weakness

  Emily Brontë, Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy, Charlotte Brontë (2016). “Classic British Love Stories: Wuthering Heights, Pride and Prejudice, Far from the Madding Crowd, and Jane Eyre”, p.680, Open Road Media

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

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  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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• 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.

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  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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• Women accept their destiny more readily than men.

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  Destiny, Men, Accepting

  Thomas Hardy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)”, p.639, Delphi Classics

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• All romances end at marriage.

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  Romance, Ends

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

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• Pessimism is playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child's play.

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  Children, Views, Games

  Notebook, 1 Jan. 1902

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

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  Hope, Disappointment, Scar

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

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