Thomas Hardy Quotations | Page 2

The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.

So do flux and reflux--the rhythm of change--alternate and persist in everything under the sky.

We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.

Don't think of what's past!" said she. "I am not going to think outside of now. Why should we! Who knows what tomorrow has in store?

My wicked heart will ramble on in spite of myself. (Arabella)

There's a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.

You, and those like you, take your fill of pleasure on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and black with sorrow; and then it is a fine thing, when you have had enough of that, to think of securing your pleasure in heaven by becoming converted!