Famous quotes containing the word hardy:
“preacher glides to the vestry-door,
And shuts it, and thinks he is seen no more.”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)
“My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker.”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)
“Ethelberta breathed a sort of exclamation, not right out, but stealthily, like a parson’s damn.”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)