Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
THOMAS HARDYLet not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
THOMAS HARDYYou overrate my capacity of love. I don’t posess half the warmth of nature you believe me to have. An unprotected childhood in a cold world has beaten gentleness out of me.
THOMAS HARDYWhy is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?
THOMAS HARDYThe 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.
THOMAS HARDYYou concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.
THOMAS HARDYTime changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
THOMAS HARDYThe business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things.
THOMAS HARDYBeauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
THOMAS HARDYWomen accept their destiny more readily than men.
THOMAS HARDYWe colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
THOMAS HARDYYou have never loved me as I love you–never–never! Yours is not a passionate heart–your heart does not burn in a flame! You are, upon the whole, a sort of fay, or sprite– not a woman!
THOMAS HARDYPeople go on marrying because they can’t resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month’s pleasure with a life’s discomfort.
THOMAS HARDYIf we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.
THOMAS HARDYAll romances end at marriage.
THOMAS HARDYEverybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.
THOMAS HARDYIt is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
THOMAS HARDY