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.
eye want mould
We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
dream soul littles
So each had a private little sun for her soul to bask in; some dream, some affection, some hobby, or at least some remote and distant hope....
truth-is offense ifs
If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.
tess-of-the-d-urbervilles lays
Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
angel punishment bears
I agree to the conditions, Angel; because you know best what my punishment ought to be; only - only - don't make it more than I can bear!
love-is weakness
Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
selfish successful men
Remember that the best and greatest among mankind are those who do themselves no worldly good. Every successful man is more or less a selfish man. The devoted fail...
criminal-mind criminals mind-opening
And yet to every bad there is a worse.
pain drama episodes
Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
fate men doe
Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.
love-you long wanting-you
I shall do one thing in this life-one thing certain-this is, love you, and long of you, and keep wanting you till I die.
expression feelings littles
They spoke very little of their mutual feeling; pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.
dog heart loss
That one true heart was left behind! What feeling do we ever find, to equal among human kind , a dog's fidelity!