All Thomas Hardy Quotes
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
Thomas Hardy in
Poetry
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There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.
Thomas Hardy
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The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.
Thomas Hardy
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Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
Thomas Hardy
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No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.
Thomas Hardy
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The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
Thomas Hardy
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Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
Thomas Hardy
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My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.
Thomas Hardy
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Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
Thomas Hardy
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The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
Thomas Hardy
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Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
Thomas Hardy
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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.
Thomas Hardy
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