Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.

Quote by Thomas Hardy

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Pessimism is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may...

Pessimism is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may...

A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.

A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.

Fear is the mother of foresight.

Fear is the mother of foresight.

War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading

War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading

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

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

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

The excessive regard of parents for their children, and their dislike of other people's is,...

The excessive regard of parents for their children, and their dislike of other people's is,...

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

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

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

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

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

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

The excessive regard of parents for their children, and their dislike of other people's is,...

The excessive regard of parents for their children, and their dislike of other people's is,...

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

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

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

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

A love without indiscretion is no lover at all.

A love without indiscretion is no lover at all.

Why should a man's mind have been thrown into such close, sad, sensational, inexplicable relations...

Why should a man's mind have been thrown into such close, sad, sensational, inexplicable relations...

You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them.

You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them.

The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfilment of that...

The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfilment of that...

There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect...

There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect...

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.

Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be...

Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be...