G.H. Hardy Quotes
To see persons looking with children's eyes at any ordinary scenery, is a proof that they possess the charming faculty of drawing new sensations from an old experience...
The thought of being whoever I want is a terrifying thing, because I have only ever been who everyone has wanted me to be.
He's the man we were in search of, that's true, and yet he's not the man we were in search of. For the man we were in search of was not the man we wanted.
If a man has any genuine talent he should be ready to make almost any sacrifice in order to cultivate it to the full.
All laughing comes from misapprehension. Rightly looked at there is no laughable thing under the sun.
You chase off every man that’s ever been interested, and you do it without even trying.
I looked up from my writing, And gave a start to see, As if rapt in my inditing, The moon's full gaze on me.
But there were certain early days in Casterbridge- days of firmamental exhaustion which followed angry south-westerly tempests-when, if the sun shone, the air was like velvet.
Love finds you, not the other way around, and you can’t run from it.
This supreme instance of Troy's goodness fell upon Gabriel's ears like the thirteenth stroke of a crazy clock.
A half knowledge of another's life mostly does injustice to the life unknown.
What a strange sort of love, to be entirely free from that quality of selfishness which is frequently the chief constituent of the passion, and sometimes it's only one!
Some of the most passionately erotic poets have been the most self-contained in their daily lives.
She had learned the lesson of renunciation and was as familiar with the wreck of each day's wishes as with the diurnal setting of the sun.
...317 is a prime, not because we think so, or because our minds are shaped in one way rather than another, but because it is, because mathematical reality is built that way.
The best mathematics is serious as well as beautiful—‘important’ if you like, but the word is very ambiguous, and ‘serious’ expresses what I mean much better
The play is independent of the pages on which it is printed, and ‘pure geometries’ are independent of lecture rooms, or of any other detail of the physical world.
It (proof by contradiction) is a far finer gambit than any chess gambit: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a pawn or even a piece, but a mathematician offers the game.
I hate to be what is called a clever girl—there are too many of that sort now!
Don't take on about her, Gabriel. What difference does it make whose sweetheart she is, since she can't be yours?''That's the very thing I say to myself, ' said Gabriel.
...it only takes one voice, at the right pitch, to start an avalanche.
Give way to the Better if way to the Better there be It exacts a full look at the Worst.
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved the Inquisition might have let him alone.
There is a good deal too strange to be believed nothing is too strange to have happened.
If I really seem vain, it is that I am only vain in my ways—not in my heart. The worst women are those vain in their hearts, and not in their ways.
The hugest changes were the ones that could not be seen – that’s where the real apocalypse lay: in people’s hearts, their souls, their beings.
Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
The characters I've played have been mostly violent, and I'm so far from being violent or aggressive. I spend a lot of time watching 'Fireman Sam' with my three-year-old son Louis.
The thing that interests me most about family history is the gap between the things we think we know about our families and the realities.
You're always aware that only eight per cent of actors are in work at one time, so you've got to be thankful for the job you've got and do the best you can.
I've rung my bells so many times, especially back in the day when chair shots to the head were legal. My goodness, I took so many of those.