Thomas Hardy Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

14 Famous Quotes by Thomas Hardy
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“There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.”
Blindness Quotes
“The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.”
Disappointment Quotes
“Fear is the mother of foresight.”
Foresight Quotes
“The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.”
Fulfilment Quotes
“If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.”
Physics Quotes
“Man, without religion, is the creature of circumstances.”
Circumstance Quotes
Source: Guesses at Truth (vol. I)
“Pessimism is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child's play.”
Pessimism Quotes
“A lover without discretion is no lover at all.”
Discretion Quotes
“A lover without discretion is no lover at all.”
Indiscretion Quotes
“Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honour as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.”
Obscurity Quotes
“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!”
Vulnerability Quotes
“War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.”
History Quotes
“Christmas Eve Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock. "Now they are all on their knees," An elder said as we sat in a flock By the embers in herath side ease. We pictured the meek mild creatures where They dwelt in their strawy pen, Nor did it occur to one of us there To doubt they were kneeling then. So fair a fancy few would weave In these years! yet, I feel If someone said on Christmas Eve, "Come; see the oxen kneel, In the lonely barton by yonder coomb Our childhood used to know," I should go with him in the gloom, Hoping it might be so.”
Christianity Quotes
“If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.”
Poetry Quotes
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