Logo
Quote by Thomas Hardy
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone. – Thomas Hardy

Other quotes by Thomas Hardy

Yes quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down youd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown. – Thomas Hardy

Category:
War
Author
Thomas Hardy
Read Quote

The sky was clear — remarkably clear — and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse. – Thomas Hardy

Category:
Sky & Clouds
Author
Thomas Hardy
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Poetry
category

There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry – the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny. – Lafcadio Hearn

Category:
Poetry

My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images. – James Broughton

Category:
Poetry

I dont like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were. – Anne Stevenson

Category:
Poetry

In rap music, even though the element of poetry is very strong, so is the element of the drum, the implication of the dance. Without the beat, its commercial value would certainly be more tenuous. – Archie Shepp

Category:
Poetry

Random Quotes

It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest. – Oscar Wilde

Category:
Saint, Saints

Isnt history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom? – Emile M. Cioran

Category:
Fear

The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit. – William Temple

Category:
Humor

Such days of autumnal decline hold a strange mystery which adds to the gravity of all our moods. Every step that Time takes imprints upon the fields as they grow bare and brown… – Charles Nodier, Trilby, ou le lutin d’Argail/Trilby: The Fairy of Argyle,

Category:
Autumn