Quotes By Thomas Hardy

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

You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them.

Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would.

The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.

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.