Famous Quotes by Thomas Hardy
- There lies intact that chalice of ours,
And its presence adds to the rhyme of... More
- This is the weather the cuckoo likes,
And so do I;
When showers betumble the chestnut... More
- This is the weather the shepherd shuns,
And so do I;
When beeches drip in browns and... More
- In the lowlands I have no comrade, not even the lone man’s friend— More
- And ghosts then keep their distance; and I know some liberty. More
- In the towns I am tracked by phantoms having weird detective ways— More
- bring me here again!
I am just the same as when
Our days were a joy, and our paths... More
- a voice still so hollow
That it seems to call out to me from forty years ago,
When you... More
- you are leading me on
To the spots we knew when we haunted here together, More
- Will this thought rise on those who will meet my face no more,
“He was one who had an eye... More
- will the neighbors say,
“He was a man who used to notice such things”? More
- “Ah, are you digging on my grave
My beloved one?—planting rue?” More
- I am sorry, but I quite forgot
It was your resting-place.” More
- That one true heart was left behind!
What feeling do we ever find
To equal among human... More
- Calm fell. From Heaven distilled a clemency;
There was peace on earth, and silence in the... More
- So, when old hopes that earth was bettering slowly
Were dead and damned, there sounded ‘War... More
- There had been years of Passion—scorching, cold,
And much Despair, and Anger heaving high, More
- I look back at it amid the rain
For the very last time; for my sand is sinking,
And I... More
- I should have kissed her if the rain
Had lasted a minute more. More
- It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to... More
- The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it... More
- It’s gunnery practice out at sea
Just as before you went below;
The world is as it used... More
- That night your great guns, unawares,
Shook all our coffins as we lay,
And broke the... More
- Again the guns disturbed the hour,
Roaring their readiness to avenge,
As far inland a... More
- Well: what we gain by science is, after all, sadness, as the Preacher saith. The more we know of... More
- His homely Northern breast and brain
Grow to some Southern tree,
And strange-eyed... More
- They throw in Drummer Hodge, to rest
Uncoffined—just as found:
His landmark is a... More
- Don’t you go believing in sayings, Picotee: they are all made by men, for their own advantages.... More
- Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them. More
- The only superiority in women that is tolerable to the rival sex is, as a rule, that of the... More
- “I can make you happy,” said he to the back of her head, across the bush. “You shall have a... More
- He had just reached the time of life at which “young” is ceasing to be the prefix of... More
- It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and... More
- It is safer to accept any chance that offers itself, and extemporize a procedure to fit it, than... More
- Theirs was that substantial affection which arises (if any arises at all) when the two who are... More
- To persons standing alone on a hill during a clear midnight such as this, the roll of the world... More
- It may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting out of love as there is for... More
- A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make... More
- One could say about this barn, what could hardly be said of either the church or the castle, akin... More
- The Young Man’s Best Companion, The Farrier’s Sure Guide, The Veterinary Surgeon, Paradise... More
- at mothy curfew-tide,
And at midnight when the noon-heat breathes it back from walls and... More
- If but some vengeful god would call to me
From up the sky, and laugh: “Thou suffering... More
- Since as a child I used to lie
Upon the leaze and watch the sky,
Never, I own, expected... More
- The years-heired feature that can
In curve and voice and eye
Despise the human... More
- I am the family face;
Flesh perishes, I live on,
Projecting trait and trace
Through... More
- Time, to make me grieve,
Part steals, lets part abide;
And shakes this fragile frame at... More
- Only a man harrowing clods
In a slow silent walk
With an old horse that stumbles and... More
- Yonder a maid and her wight
Come whispering by:
War’s annals will cloud into... More
- And so, standing before the aforesaid officiator, the two swore that at every other time of their... More
- For a novel addressed by a man to men and women of full age; which attempts to deal unaffectedly... More
- A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all. Circumspection and devotion are a contradiction... More
- Let me enjoy the earth no less
Because the all-enacting Might
That fashioned forth its... More
- Some folk want their luck buttered. More
- Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle. More
- Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honour as deserving real... More
- My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial... More
- Pessimism ... is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the... More
- If all hearts were open and all desires known—as they would be if people showed their... More
- Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be... More
- My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own. More
- We enter church, and we have to say, “We have erred and strayed from Thy ways like lost... More
- re-enact at the vestry-glass
Each pulpit gesture in deft dumb-show
That had moved the... More
- preacher glides to the vestry-door,
And shuts it, and thinks he is seen no more. More
- Shut out that stealing moon,
She wears too much the guise she wore
Before our lutes were... More
- A sparrow enters the tree,
Whereon immediately
A snow lump thrice his own slight... More
- Some flakes have lost their way, and grope back upward, when
Meeting those meandering down... More
- That man’s silence is wonderful to listen to. More
- My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading. More
- Once victim, always victim—that’s the law! More
- All these young souls were passengers in the Durbeyfield ship—entirely dependent on the... More
- “Justice” was done, and the President of the Immortals, in Æschylean phrase, had ended his... More
- That cold accretion called the world, which, so terrible in the mass, is so unformidable, even... More
- Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity. More
- [T]hat moment of evening when the light and the darkness are so evenly balanced that the... More
- Why it was that upon this beautiful feminine tissue, sensitive as gossamer, and practically blank... More
- The season developed and matured. Another year’s installment of flowers, leaves, nightingales,... More
- Till the Spinner of the Years
Said “Now!” And each one hears,
And consummation comes,... More
- I leant upon a coppice gate
When Frost was spectre-gray More
- An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small,
In blast-beruffled plume,
Had chosen thus to... More
- Why did you give no hint that night
That quickly after the morrow’s dawn,
And calmly,... More
- Ethelberta breathed a sort of exclamation, not right out, but stealthily, like a parson’s damn. More
- Yet I would bear my shortcomings
With meet tranquility,
But for the charge that blessed... More
- ‘Yes; quaint and curious war is!
You shoot a fellow down
You’d treat if met where any... More
- “Michael Henchard’s Will
“That Elizabeth-Jane Farfrae be not told of my death, or made... More
- Dialect words—those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel. More
- The victors and the vanquished then the storm it tossed and tore,
As hard they strove, those... More
- “Come; see the oxen kneel,
“In the lonely barton by yonder coomb
Our childhood... More
- Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock.
“Now they are all on their knees,” More
- A well-proportioned mind is one which shows no particular bias; one of which we may safely say... More
- A whole village-full of sensuous emotion, scattered abroad all the year long, surged here in a... More
- The instincts of merry England lingered on here with exceptional vitality, and the symbolic... More
- Twilight combined with the scenery of Egdon Heath to evolve a thing majestic without severity,... More
- He had been a lad of whom something was expected. Beyond this all had been chaos. That he would... More
- The place became full of a watchful intentness now; for when other things sank brooding to sleep... More
- The Roman Road runs straight and bare
As the pale parting-line in hair
Across the heath. More
- Uprises there
A mother’s form upon my ken,
Guiding my infant steps, as when
We... More
- —‘I wish I had feathers, a fine sweeping gown,
And a delicate face, and could strut about... More
- whence such fair garments, such prosperi-ty?’—
‘O didn’t you know I’d been... More
- Here is the ancient floor,
Footworn and hollowed and thin
Here was the former... More
- “Come hither, Son,” I heard Death say;
“I did not will a grave
Should end thy... More
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