Thomas Hardy Quotes

Thomas Hardy — English Novelist born on June 02, 1840, died on January 11, 1928

Thomas Hardy, OM was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, especially William Wordsworth.Charles Dickens was another important influence. Like Dickens, he was highly critical of much in Victorian society, though Hardy focused more on a declining rural society... (wikipedia)

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

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

There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.

Fear is the mother of foresight.

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

Thomas Hardy Quotes

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