Thomas Hardy Quotes


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! - Thomas Hardy


You was a good man, and did good things. - Thomas Hardy


You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them. - Thomas Hardy


Yonder a maid and her wight / Come whispering by: / War's annals will cloud into night/ Ere their story die. - Thomas Hardy


Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down You'd treat if met where any bar is, Or help to half-a-crown. - Thomas Hardy


Why should a man's mind have been thrown into such close, sad, sensational, inexplicable relations with such a precarious object as his body? - Thomas Hardy


Who's in the next room? - who? / I seemed to see / Somebody in the dawning passing through,/ Unknown to me. - Thomas Hardy


Where once we danced, where once we sang, Gentlemen, / The floors are shrunken, cobwebs hang. - Thomas Hardy


When the Present has latched its postern behind my tremulous stay, / And the May month flaps its glad green leaves like wings, / Delicate-filmed as new-spun silk, will the neighbours say, / `He was a man who used to notice such things'? - Thomas Hardy


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