Quotes By Thomas Hardy

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.

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

The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.

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

No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.