Quotes By Thomas Hardy

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

Fear is the mother of foresight.

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

I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on.

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

Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.