Thomas Hardy Novelist Quotations

There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.

A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.

Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would.

If way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst.

My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own.

Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honour as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.

You was a good man, and did good things.

A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all. Circumspection and devotion are a contradiction in terms.