Thomas HardyDo not do an immoral thing for moral reasons. ✨ Thomas Hardy (2012). Jude the Obscure, p.267, Courier Corporation372Humanity
Thomas HardyI. At Tea THE kettle descants in a cosy drone, And the young wife looks in her husband's face, And then in her guest's, and shows in her own Her sense that she fills an envied pla… ▶373Humanity
Thomas HardyThe defective can be more than the entire. ✨ Tess of the D'Urbervilles.363Philosophy
Thomas HardyBut no one came. Because no one ever does.341Philosophy
Thomas HardyIndifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not. ✨ Thomas Hardy (2016). Far from the Madding Crowd: Work… ▶374Life
Thomas HardyBy experience, says Roger Ascham, we find out a short way by a long wandering. Not seldom that long wandering unfits us for further travel, and of what use is our experience to us… ▶331Life
Thomas HardyHer affection for him was now the breath and life of Tess's being; it enveloped her as a photosphere, irradiated her into forgetfulness of her past sorrows, keeping back the gloom… ▶342LifeLovePolitics
Thomas HardySometimes I shrink from your knowing what I have felt for you, and sometimes I am distressed that all of it you will never know. ✨ Thomas Hardy (2016). Far from the Madding … ▶331Time
Thomas HardyWe colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in. ✨ Thomas Hardy (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated), p.911, Delphi Cl… ▶342Hope
Thomas HardyA strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away. ✨ Thomas Hardy (1874). Far From the Madd… ▶332Hope
Thomas HardyIf an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed. ✨ Thomas Hardy (1920). The Writings of Thomas Hardy in Prose and Ve… ▶376Truth
Thomas HardyTime changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change. ✨ Thomas Hardy, Joanna Cullen Brown (1990). Let me enjoy the earth: Thomas Hardy and … ▶366Time
Thomas HardyMen thin away to insignificance and oblivion quite as often by not making the most of good spirits when they have them as by lacking good spirits when they are indispensable. 377Time
Thomas HardyBeauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized. ✨ Thomas Hardy (2016). Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman, p.360, Thomas Hardy311Humor
Thomas HardyWhen yellow lights struggle with blue shades in hairlike lines. ✨ Thomas Hardy (2016). Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Diversion Classics), p.76, Diversion Books344Reading
Thomas HardyBless thy simplicity, Tess ✨ Thomas Hardy (2007). Tess of the d'Urbervilles - Second Edition, p.47, Broadview Press355Humor
Thomas HardyAll romances end at marriage. ✨ Thomas Hardy (2016). Far From the Madding Crowd (Diversion Classics), p.321, Diversion Books344LoveReading
Thomas HardyIt may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting out of love as there is for getting in. Some people look upon marriage as a short cut that way, but it has been… ▶355HumanityLove
Thomas HardyLike the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle. ✨ Thomas Hardy (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrate… ▶301Humanity
Thomas HardyThat aspects are within us; and who seems Most kingly is the King. ✨ The Collected Poems of Thomas Hardy.301Reading
Thomas HardyWhy didn’t you tell me there was danger? Why didn’t you warn me? Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks; but I never had the ch… ▶356DeathHopeReading
Thomas HardyIf we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do. ✨ Thomas Hardy (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated), p.492, Delphi Classic… ▶367Life
Thomas HardyEverybody must be managed. Queens must be managed. Kings must be managed, for men want managing almost as much as women, and that's saying a good deal. ✨ Thomas Hardy (2013)… ▶301Politics
Thomas HardyMany...have learned that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements, but as to their subjective experiences. The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fulle… ▶312Life
Thomas HardyTheir position was perhaps the happiest of all positions in the social scale, being above the line at which neediness ends, and below the line at which the convenances begin to cr… ▶345Reading
Thomas HardyIs a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer? ✨ Thomas Hardy (2016). Jude the Obscure: Works of Hardy, p.314, 谷月社323Thought
Thomas HardyMy eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all. ✨ Thomas Hardy (2016). Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Diversion Classics), p.95, Diversion Books378Reading
Thomas HardyThe 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… ▶357Reading
Thomas HardySome folk want their luck buttered. ✨ Thomas Hardy (2016). The Mayor of Casterbridge, p.107, Thomas Hardy291Love
Thomas HardyThere's a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating. ✨ Thomas Hardy (2016). Under the Greenwood Tree: Works of Hardy, p.44, 谷月社335Life
