HARDY FORUM ARCHIVE H01103 12/17/01 "FAVORITE HARDYAN QUOTES" ============================================================ From: Kelseym221@cs.com Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 15:49:46 EST Subject: Hardy Quotes. Salutations, Hardyonians and miserabilists. As a Christmas gift to my cousin, who requested books of quotes, I've been compiling my own personal book of quips and comments for her. I'm nearing completion now, and despite the abundance of Shakespeare, Emerson, Maugham, Twain, and Wilde quotes I've managed to cram into those homemade pages, I'm noting a glaring lack of Thomas Hardy. I managed to work in a few quotes from his poems and Jude the Obscure, but that's about all. I've been hunched over my dog-eared and hyper-highlighted copies of his novels and poems and short stories, but alas, I'm not finding much. Of course Hardy's genius was too deep, too ethereal to be crammed into paradoxical Wildean witticisms, but could you, my fellow bibliophiles, please share with me your favorite Hardy quotes? I'm sure I'm overlooking a ton of them .....: ========== From: "Phillip Sharp" Subject: RE: Hardy Quotes. Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 08:09:23 -0500 The daylight has nothing to show me, since you are not here. - Tess in a letter to Angel Clare. ========== Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 09:37:03 -0800 From: Betty Cortus Subject: Re: Hardy Quotes. Kelsey, have you considered "If way to the Better there be, it exacts a full look at the Worst." ("In Tenebris II")? Possibly Hardy's most marmoreal philosophical statement. Betty Cortus ========== From: "Natalie" Subject: My Favorite Hardy Quote ... words to live by! Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 15:45:53 -0500 My favorite Hardy quote!! "Be kind to animals and birds, and read all you can." - Mr. Phillotson, Jude the Obscure ========== From: "Richard" Subject: Re: My Favorite Hardy Quote ... words to live by! Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 22:42:03 -0000 ----- Original Message ----- From: Natalie To: HARDY-L@csusm.edu Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 8:45 PM Subject: My Favorite Hardy Quote ... words to live by! "In considering what Tess was not, he overlooked what she was" ========== Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 21:15:59 -0600 From: Bill Morgan Subject: Re: Hardy Quotes. Kelsey, Here's a pithy one: Christmas: 1924 'Peace upon earth!' was said. We sing it, And pay a million priests to bring it. After two thousand years of mass We've got as far as poison-gas. 1924 cheers? Bill Morgan ========== From: "Rebekah Page" c: Subject: Re: Hardy Quotes. Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 23:25:10 -0500 Hi Kelsey-- I've been spending a lot of time with Hardy lately, since I'm writing my senior Honors thesis on Tess, Jude, Madding Crowd, and their film adaptations. My favorite Hardy quote comes from one of his letters, I believe to Edmund Gosse: "All comedy, is tragedy,--if you only look deep enough into it." --Rebekah Page ========== From: "Patricia M Mann" > Subject: Re: Hardy Quotes. Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 12:50:23 -0000 I have a slim volume of 'The Sayings of Thomas Hardy', published by Duckworth - 1996 and edited by Robert Pearce. One of my favourites - to be found on P54 is 'The regular resource of people who don't go enough into the world to live a novel is to write one.' (A Pair of Blue Eyes). And another on P21 (ibid.) 'It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.' (FFMC). Patricia Mann ========== From: "Sara Malton" Subject: RE: Hardy Quotes. Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 09:27:08 -0500 You may have this one from _Jude the Obscure_ already: "The highest form of affection is based on full sincerity on both sides." Best wishes, Sara Malton ______________________ sara.malton@sympatico.ca ========== Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 12:12:24 -0500 From: Don Ulin Subject: Re: Hardy Quotes. As a lover or mountains, my own favorite may be this one, from "Wessex Heights": Down there they are dubious and askance; there nobody thinks as I, But mind-chains do not clank where one's next neighbour is the sky. * Don Ulin ========== From: "Gary Alderson" Subject: Re: Hardy Quotes. Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 23:13:37 -0000 My favourite (among many from Under the Greenwood Tree) - "Good, but not religious-good". ========== Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 10:29:47 -0800 From: Betty Cortus hardycor@owl.csusm.edu Subject: Hardy Quotes Dear members, I have been very much enjoying your favorite Hardyan quotations. They are beginning to add up to a considerable store of wit and wisdom. It occurred to me that if we could gather enough of them it would make a nice article for a future Hardy Review. An even more ambitious idea might be to create a calendar as a much-needed fund-raiser for TTHA. I envision it with a Hardy-related picture and one or two of his bon mots for each month. Just a thought--but keep them coming in. Best Wishes, Betty Cortus ========== From: "A.J. Salvas" To: hardycor@owl.csusm.edu Subject: Re: Hardy Quotes Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 14:39:56 -0500 Here's my choices: "It was the Tetelestai of her union with Troy." (FFMC) "It was a fatal omission of Boldwood's that he had never once told her she was beautiful." (FFMC) "I'll be D.D. before I have done!" (Jude) "Henchard, like all his kind, was superstitious, and he could not help thinking that the concatenation of events this evening had produced was the scheme of some sinister intelligence bent on punishing him." (Mayor of C.) Adrien Salvas ========== From: SBWright@aol.com Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 17:30:30 EST Subject: Re: Hardy Quotes Status: Dear Members: A Hardy calendar with quotations, as suggested by Betty Cortus, ought to be a superb TTHA fundraiser. I was given, as a gift, a 2001 calendar called "The Landscape of Dorset," with a spiral binding along the top, color images of the coast and countryside, and relevant quotations from Hardy's fiction. The publisher is J. Salmon of Sevenoaks, Kent. A calendar along these lines, or one less expensive in black and white, ought to be very well received. Best -- Sarah Bird Wright Sarah Bird Wright 3505 Old Gun Rd. E. Midlothian, VA 23113 TEL 804/272-1248 FAX 804.330-0137 E-mail: sbwright@aol.com swright4@richmond.edu ========== From: "JULIAN WHIPPLE"