Thomas Hardy

A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.

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

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

And yet to every bad there is a worse.

Aspect are within us, and who seems most kingly is king.

Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would.

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

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.

Fear is the mother of foresight.

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.

My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.

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

No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.