Thomas Hardy Quotes & Sayings
36 most famous Thomas Hardy quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He was a British novelist who passed away on 11 January, 1928.
“Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.”
“The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.”
“The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.”
“There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.”
“You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them.”
“I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on.”
“Fear is the mother of foresight.”
“And yet to every bad there is a worse.”
“It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.”
“The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.”
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