The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
Quote by Thomas Hardy
Click on the picture of Thomas Hardy quote you want to see a larger version.
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
Click on the picture of Thomas Hardy quote you want to see a larger version.
Thomas Hardy Quotes
- The fundamental error of their matrimonial union that of having based a permanent contract on a temporary feeling.
- Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- If a way to the better there be, it lies in taking a full look at the worst.
- A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
- The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
Best Quotes
- I should just put it bluntly, because we're all sort of friends here now - it's exceedingly likely that my greatest success is behind me. Oh, so Jesus, what a thought! You know that's the kind of thought that could lead a person to start drinking gin at nine o'clock in the morning, and I don't want to go there.
- An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence a vain man, in order that it may.
- I'm thankful for the incredible advances in medicine that have taken place during my lifetime. I almost certainly wouldn't still be here if it weren't for them.
- To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.
- I have to think hard to name an interesting man who does not drink.
- We from every religion feel comfortable in Britain because there is a host. The Church of England is a good host, it has been a major force in shaping England into such a tolerant society.
- A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.
- Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.
- Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.
- I enjoy sports in person.