Quotes about Thomas Hardy

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure...

#Thomas Hardy

Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.

#Thomas Hardy

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

#Thomas Hardy

No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.

#Thomas Hardy

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

#Thomas Hardy

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly...

#Thomas Hardy

If way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst.

#Thomas Hardy