Richard Hardy may refer to:
- Richard Hardy (MP) for Newport (Isle of Wight) (UK Parliament constituency)
- A former mayor of Chattanooga, Tennessee
- A student victim of the Our Lady of the Angels School Fire
- A former cricket player for Washington, Tyne and Wear cricket club
Famous quotes containing the words richard and/or hardy:
“Words convey the mental treasures of one period to the generations that follow; and laden with this, their precious freight, they sail safely across gulfs of time in which empires have suffered shipwreck and the languages of common life have sunk into oblivion.”
—Anonymous. Quoted in Richard Chevenix Trench, On the Study of Words, lecture 1 (1858)
“Well: what we gain by science is, after all, sadness, as the Preacher saith. The more we know of the laws & nature of the Universe the more ghastly a business we perceive it all to be—& the non-necessity of it.”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)