Hardy

Famous quotes containing the word hardy:

    That cold accretion called the world, which, so terrible in the mass, is so unformidable, even pitiable, in its units.
    —Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)

    Yet I would bear my shortcomings
    With meet tranquility,
    But for the charge that blessed things
    I’d liefer not have be.
    O, doth a bird deprived of wings
    Go earth-bound wilfully!
    —Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)

    preacher glides to the vestry-door,
    And shuts it, and thinks he is seen no more.
    —Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)