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
half forgotten impression
She was but a transient impression, half forgotten.
suits lovers sin
Thoroughly convinced of the impossibility of his own suit, a high resolve constrained him not to injure that of another. This is a lover's most stoical virtue, as the lack of it is a lover's most venial sin.
tess-of-the-d-urbervilles tricks novel
Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks…
two gravitation
Nobody had beheld the gravitation of the two into one
soul sin judgment
Never in her life – she could swear it from the bottom of her soul – had she ever intended to do wrong; yet these hard judgments had come. Whatever her sins, they were not sins of intention, but of inadvertence, and why should she have been punished so persistently?
girl advantage
You don't talk quite like a girl who has had no advantages.
sex men suffering
Sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonized at the thought of treating a man cruelly, she encourages him to love her while she doesn't love him at all. Then, when she sees him suffering, her remorse sets in, and she does what she can to repair the wrong.
years long extinction
A blaze of love and extinction, was better than a lantern glimmer of the same which should last long years.
came dreaming nature offered peace release soft unto wood
Unto this wood I came As to a nest; Dreaming that sylvan peace Offered the harrowed ease- Nature a soft release From men's unrest
floors
Where once we danced, where once we sang, Gentlemen, / The floors are shrunken, cobwebs hang.
cruelty english-novelist nature
Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would.
english-novelist
If way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst.
pain eye ears
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.
condition english-novelist
There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.