39 Quotations by Thomas Hardy
- 1. A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all. Circumspection and devotion are a contradiction in ...

- 2. A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

- 3. A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance ...

- 4. Aspect are within us, and who seems most kingly is king.

- 5. Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.

- 6. Don't you go believing in sayings, Picotee: they are all made by men, for their own advantages. Wome ...

- 7. Ethelberta breathed a sort of exclamation, not right out, but stealthily, like a parson's damn.

- 8. Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction ...

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

- 10. Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relen ...

- 11. I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on, projecting trait and trace through time to times an ...

- 12. I shall be breakfasted before you are afield. In short, I shall astonish you all.

- 13. If a way to the better there be, it lies in taking a full look at the worst

- 14. If all hearts were open and all desires known -- as they would be if people showed their souls -- ho ...

- 15. It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to expre ...

- 16. Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness ha ...

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

- 18. Loving is misery for women always. I shall never forgive God for making me a woman and dearly am I b ...

- 19. Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.

- 20. Once victim, always victim -- that's the law!

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