Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy, OMwas 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...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth2 June 1840
sweet brother flower
He Looked and smelt like Autumn's very brother, his face being sunburnt to wheat-colour, his eyes blue as corn-flowers, his sleeves and leggings dyed with fruit-stains, his hands clammy with the sweet juice of apples, his hat sprinkled with pips, and everywhere about him the sweet atmosphere of cider which at its first return each season has such an indescribable fascination for those who have been born and bred among the orchards.
half forgotten impression
She was but a transient impression, half forgotten.
men execution hours
In the ill-judged execution of the well-judged plan of things the call seldom produces the comer, the man to love rarely coincides with the hour for loving
struggle blue yellow
When yellow lights struggle with blue shades in hairlike lines.
simplicity bless tess
Bless thy simplicity, Tess
perfect humanity would-be
It was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity
strength strong-women tess-of-the-d-urbervilles
A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.
expression feelings littles
They spoke very little of their mutual feeling; pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.
fate men doe
Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.
selfish successful men
Remember that the best and greatest among mankind are those who do themselves no worldly good. Every successful man is more or less a selfish man. The devoted fail...
truth-is offense ifs
If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.
husband men wife
It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession
men heaven religion
The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
angel punishment bears
I agree to the conditions, Angel; because you know best what my punishment ought to be; only - only - don't make it more than I can bear!