Quotes by Thomas Hardy

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

#Disappointment

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

#History

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men...

#Age

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been...

#Women

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

#Parents

My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and...

#Emotion

Some day my boat will come in, and with my luck I'll be at the...

#Luck

Some folk want their luck buttered.

#Chance, #Happiness, #Luck

One whose every goal is accomplished and every dream fulfilled, lives not as a man...

#Goals

Fear is the mother of foresight.

#Fear

I have been looking for god for fifty years and I think if he had...

#God

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

#Thomas Hardy