Hardy, Thomas

"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."

"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."

"'Peace upon earth!' was said. We sing it,
And pay a million priests to bring it.
After two thousand years of mass
We've got as far as poison-gas."
- Christmas: 1924

"The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible." - Far from the Madding Crowd

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

"Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity." - Tess of the D'Ubervilles

"A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all." - The Hand of Ethelberta

"Dialect words-those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel." - The Mayor of Casterbridge

"Dialect words - those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel." - The Mayor of Casterbridge