Thomas Hardy Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown.”

“The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.”

“My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own.”

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

“Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.”

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