Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can’t get out of it if we would. — Thomas Hardy
I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence. — Thomas Hardy
It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express. — Thomas Hardy
Like the british constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle. — Thomas Hardy
My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own. — Thomas Hardy
Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them. — Thomas Hardy
Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art. — Thomas Hardy
The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him. — Thomas Hardy
The sky was clear – remarkably clear – and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body — Thomas Hardy
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes. — Thomas Hardy
There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn’t there. — Thomas Hardy
Yes; quaint and curious war is! you shoot a fellow down you’d treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown. — Thomas Hardy
Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change. — Thomas Hardy