Thomas Hardy Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

Thomas Hardy quotes and sayings page 3 (deceased novelist born on Jun 2, 1840). Here's quote # 21 through 30 out of the 36 we have for him.

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“I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.”

“Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.”

“A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.”

“Some folk want their luck buttered.”

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

“A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.”

“Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.”

“Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it.”

“Aspect are within us, and who seems most kingly is king.”

“Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would.”

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