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
music ties friendly
There's a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
integrity morality ethics
Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
stars sky body
The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.
summer autumn thinking
That it would always be summer and autumn, and you always courting me, and always thinking as much of me as you have done through the past summertime!
hope disappointment scar
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
love-you heart flames
You 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!
change time surprise
Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
voice tree woods
To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.
approach approaches curve directly doubtful grave less line reach seemed straight till
Indeed, he seemed to approach the grave as a hyperbolic curve approaches a straight line -- less directly as he got nearer, till it was doubtful if he would ever reach it at all.
knowing sometimes knows
Sometimes I shrink from your knowing what I have felt for you, and sometimes I am distressed that all of it you will never know.
writing artist ideas
My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker.
powerful spring moving
It was that period in the vernal quarter when we may suppose the Dryads to be waking for the season. The vegetable world begins to move and swell and the saps to rise, till in the completest silence of lone gardens and trackless plantations, where everything seems helpless and still after the bond and slavery of frost, there are bustlings, strainings, united thrusts, and pulls-all-together, in comparison with which the powerful tugs of cranes and pulleys in a noisy city are but pigmy efforts.
women believe listening
Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
romance ends
All romances end at marriage.