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
thinking serious alive
This hobble of being alive is rather serious, don’t you think so?
may example stories
I may do some good before I am dead--be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.
pain eye ears
There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.
cutting people looks
It may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting out of love as there is for getting in. Some people look upon marriage as a short cut that way, but it has been known to fail.
pain drama episodes
Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
beautiful sweet eye
It was terribly beautiful to Tess today, for since her eyes last fell upon it she had learnt that the serpent hisses where the sweet birds sing.
tess-of-the-d-urbervilles lays
Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
criminal-mind criminals mind-opening
And yet to every bad there is a worse.
business luck want
Some folk want their luck buttered.
dream soul littles
So each had a private little sun for her soul to bask in; some dream, some affection, some hobby, or at least some remote and distant hope....
love-is weakness
Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
love-you long wanting-you
I shall do one thing in this life-one thing certain-this is, love you, and long of you, and keep wanting you till I die.
real people honor
Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.
men feelings language
It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.