Famous quotes containing the words thomas hardy, sir thomas, sir, thomas and/or hardy:
“Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)
“With serving still
This have I won,
For my goodwill
To be undone;”
—Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?–1542)
“This is no Sir Galahad who lives from afar. This is a two- legged boa constrictor.”
—John Lee Mahin (1902–1984)
“...I believed passionately that Communists were a race of horned men who divided their time equally between the burning of Nancy Drew books and the devising of a plan of nuclear attack that would land the largest and most lethal bomb squarely upon the third-grade class of Thomas Jefferson School in Morristown, New Jersey.”
—Fran Lebowitz (b. 1950)
“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)