Quotes by 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

There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.

#Blindness

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

#Cruelty

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

#Disappointment, #Fulfilment

The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far...

#Evil

Fear is the mother of foresight.

#Fear, #Foresight

Had other aims than my delight.

#Goals