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Thomas Hardy Quotes

English - Novelist | June 2, 1840 - January 11, 1928

Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.

Words Beast Terrible Dialect Those

My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own.

Opinion Thought Emotion Own Poet

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.

Pain Eye Lips Tongue More Sound

Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.

Patience Courage Moral Moral Courage

A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

Men Woman Language Feelings Her

And yet to every bad there is a worse.

Bad Worse Every

Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it.

Road Enemy Flight Give Only Means

Some folk want their luck buttered.

Luck Chance Want Some Folk Buttered

Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.

Morals Manners Argument Own Custom

Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.

Success Practice Constitution She

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.

Nature Art Poetry Measure Emotion

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