Quotes by : Thomas Hardy

To see persons looking with children's eyes at any ordinary scenery, is a proof that they possess the....

She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation,....

Every woman who makes a permanent impression on a man is afterwards recalled to his mind's eye as she....

I won't be a slave to the past. I'll love where I choose.

You would hardly think, at first, that horrid monsters lie up there waiting to be discovered by any moderately....

A novel is an impression, not an argument; and there the matter must rest.

Tess was awake before dawn — at the marginal minute of the dark when the grove is still mute, save....

The next morning, when Thomasin withdrew the curtains of her bedroom window, there stood the Maypole....

All laughing comes from misapprehension. Rightly looked at there is no laughable thing under the sun.....

Suddenly an unexpected series of sounds began to be heard in this place up against the starry sky. They....