Thomas Hardy

I am the family face flesh perishes, I live on…

I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so…

The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that…

Yes quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you’d treat if met…

Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity…

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

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure…

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men…

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

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly…

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let…

Fear is the mother of foresight…

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to…

Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society and we can’t get out of…

My argument is that War makes rattling good history but Peace is poor reading…