Thomas Hardy Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• Pessimism is playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child's play.

  Thomas Hardy

  Children, Views, Games

  Notebook, 1 Jan. 1902

• There was now a distinct manifestation of morning in the air, and presently the bleared white visage of a sunless winter day emerged like a dead-born child.

  Thomas Hardy

  Morning, Children, Winter

  Thomas Hardy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)”, p.3084, Delphi Classics

• The beggarly question of parentage--what is it, after all? What does it matter, when you come to think of it, whether a child is yours by blood or not? All the little ones of our time are collectively the children of us adults of the time, and entitled to our general care. That excessive regard of parents for their own children, and their dislike of other people's, is, like class-feeling, patriotism, save-your-own-soul-ism, and other virtues, a mean exclusiveness at bottom.

  Thomas Hardy

  Children, Mean, Thinking

  Jude the Obscure pt. 5, ch. 3 (1896)

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