Inspiration Quote by Thomas Hardy — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“You ride well, but you don't kiss nicely at all.”

“That it would always be summer and autumn, and you always courting me, and always thinking as much of me as you have done through the past summertime!”

“—I speak as one who plumbs”

“The yard was a little centre of regeneration. Here, with keen edges and smooth curves, were forms in the exact likeness of those he had seen abraded and time-eaten on the walls. These were the ideas in modern prose which the lichened colleges presented in old poetry. Even some of those antiques might have been called prose when they were new. They had done nothing but wait, and had become poetical. How easy to the smallest building; how impossible to most men.”

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

“At once a voice arose among”

“Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.”

“What worries you masters you.”

“Once you choose hope, anythings possible.”

“Correction does much, but encouragement does more.”

“If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore.”

“Always be smarter than the people who hire you.”