Famous Thomas Hardy Quotes

  • being a harp which the least wind of emotion from another’s heart could make to vibrate as readily as a radical stir in her own. – Thomas Hardy

    being a harp which the least wind of emotion from another’s heart could make to vibrate as readily as a radical stir in her own.– Thomas Hardy

  • Like enthusiasts in general, he made no inquiries into details of procedure. – Thomas Hardy

    Like enthusiasts in general, he made no inquiries into details of procedure.– Thomas Hardy

  • They had done nothing but wait, and had become poetical. How easy to the smallest building; how impossible to most men. – Thomas Hardy

    They had done nothing but wait, and had become poetical. How easy to the smallest building; how impossible to most men.– Thomas Hardy

  • Better to choose a limit capriciously than to have none. – Thomas Hardy

    Better to choose a limit capriciously than to have none.– Thomas Hardy

  • Idiosyncrasy and vicissitude had combined to stamp Sergeant Troy as an exceptional being. – Thomas Hardy

    Idiosyncrasy and vicissitude had combined to stamp Sergeant Troy as an exceptional being.– Thomas Hardy

  • If she had not been imprudence incarnate, she would not have acted as she did when she met Henchard by accident a day or two later. – Thomas Hardy

    If she had not been imprudence incarnate, she would not have acted as she did when she met Henchard by accident a day or two later.– Thomas Hardy

  • I want to question my belief, so that what is left after I have questioned it, will be even stronger. – Thomas Hardy

    I want to question my belief, so that what is left after I have questioned it, will be even stronger.– Thomas Hardy

  • An average woman is in this superior to an average man-”that she never instigates, only responds. – Thomas Hardy

    An average woman is in this superior to an average man-”that she never instigates, only responds.– Thomas Hardy

  • Experience is as to intensity and not as to duration. – Thomas Hardy

    Experience is as to intensity and not as to duration.– Thomas Hardy

  • Many besides Angel have learnt that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements but as to their subjective experiences. – Thomas Hardy

    Many besides Angel have learnt that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements but as to their subjective experiences.– Thomas Hardy