Quotes By Thomas Hardy

Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

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.