25 Quotes By Thomas Hardy


Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
Thomas Hardy on time

My argument is that War makes rattling good history but Peace is poor reading.
Thomas Hardy on war

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 on war

The excessive regard of parents for their children, and their dislike of other people's is, like class feeling, patriotism, save-your-soul-ism, and other virtues, a mean exclusiveness at bottom.
Thomas Hardy on family

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 on war