Thomas Hardy Quotes

Some folk want their luck buttered.

Thomas Hardy

Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.

Thomas Hardy

Fear is the mother of foresight.

Thomas Hardy

You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them.

Thomas Hardy

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

Thomas Hardy

My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.

Thomas Hardy

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

Thomas Hardy

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

Thomas Hardy

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

Thomas Hardy

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

Thomas Hardy