Thomas Hardy Quotes
An English novelist, short story writer and poet.
(1840 - 1928)
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A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all. Circumspection and devotion are a contradiction in terms.
[Passion]
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A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
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A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.
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And yet to every bad there is a worse.
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Aspects are within us, and who seems most kingly is king.
[Illusion]
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Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would.
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Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.
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Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
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Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.
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Fear is the mother of foresight.
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Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it.
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Give way to the Better if way to the Better there be, It exacts a full look at the Worst.
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Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
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Good, but not religious-good.
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I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on.
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I have seldom known a man cunning with his brush who was not simple with his tongue; or, indeed, any skill in particular that was not allied to general stupidity.
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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.
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If all hearts were open and all desires known - as they would be if people showed their souls - how many gapings, sighings, clenched fists, knotted brows, broad grins, and red eyes should we see in the market-place!
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If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
[Poetry]
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If way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst.
[Life]
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