Thomas Hardy
12 quotations
The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
Some folk want their luck buttered.
If way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst.
Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.
Aspect are within us, and who seems most kingly is king.
That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.
Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.
Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
Ethelberta breathed a sort of exclamation, not right out, but stealthily, like a parson's damn.
Once victim, always victim -- that's the law!
Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.