Hardy

Famous quotes containing the word hardy:

“Here is the ancient floor,
Footworn and hollowed and thin
Here was the former door
Where the dead feet walked in.”
—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)