G.H. Hardy Quotes

Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.

Lady Luck shines on all, but rather than having your umbrella overhead, you've got to have your face to the sky. When it comes down to it, it's all you, baby. There's no other way around it.

If I'd been four feet tall and fifteen stone, I would certainly not have followed the same career

What’s easy to do, is also easy not to do.

Vanity is normal in performers. Does it bother other people? All the time. But nine times out of 10, that says more about them than you.

I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on.

One of the things I have had to focus on, in order to move forward, is not being a stunt monkey.

The most important thing in the professional wrestling industry in this day and age of technology and the Internet and social media is to be able to make wrestling unpredictable.

The Compound Effect is the principle of reaping huge rewards from a series of small, smart choices

If all the people around you are happy with you, you are not doing great work. Progress is disruption and change.

You alone are responsible for what you do, don’t do, or how you respond to what’s done to you.

My wicked heart will ramble on in spite of myself. (Arabella)

Matt Hardy may be dysfunctional, but you can't spell dysfunctional without fun. My goal in the professional wrestling industry is to put fun into the dysfunctionality of it.

You can only be great at the big things by being great at the little things. Do something little with greatness today.

I'm not a big guy anyway. I'm only, what, 150 pounds? I was 190 for 'Batman,' 179 for 'Warrior.' Films make you look big.

It seems a shallow observation, but... the Tory Conference are not an attractive lot, are they? I mean, if all those people were born in the same village, you'd blame pollution, wouldn't you?

Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.

I have four or five wrestling personalities up my sleeve. I always want to deliver a great match, and my goal will forever be to continue to connect with the fans.

Success is when what you THINK, SAY, and DO are the same.

I'm just getting settled as a responsible man - but if you split the elephant into little mouthfuls it will be fine.

Don't think of what's past!" said she. "I am not going to think outside of now. Why should we! Who knows what tomorrow has in store?

You overrate my capacity of love. I don't posess half the warmth of nature you believe me to have. An unprotected childhood in a cold world has beaten gentleness out of me.

If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables?

Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.

Cricket is the only game where you are playing against eleven of the other side and ten of your own.

Success is not for those who want it, nor those who need it, but for those who are utterly determined to seize it--whatever it takes.

I don't think there's such a thing as the greatest of all time or the greatest in the world.

The case for my life... is this: that I have added something to knowledge, and helped others to add more

I may do some good before I am dead--be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.

Between my music, my art, and my wrestling - and having the Hardy girls and a great wife - my life is complete.

If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.

My daughter wanted a new pair of trainers. I told her You're eleven, make your own!

No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the least difference to the amenity of the world.

One of the best days of your life can be when you finally say, 'I've had it!' then stand up and fight.

This hobble of being alive is rather serious, don’t you think so?

If I am duly compared to Marlon Brando at all, well, I can only think of The Teahouse of the 'Shanghai Noon,' that they're comparing me to that!

Maybe it's a little ambitious of me to presume that no matter how big the film is, that I can always go down to the shop to buy a pint of milk.

I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford.

Luck is an equal opportunity distributor.

you are absolutely the most ethereal, least sensual woman I ever knew to exist without inhuman sexlessness.

Being an only child, I didn't have any other family but my mom and dad really, since the rest of my family lived quite far away from London.

Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it.

Something very rare in this day and age is to see performers do something that has never been done before.

That one true heart was left behind! What feeling do we ever find, to equal among human kind , a dog's fidelity!

The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.

Small, seemingly insignificant steps completed consistently over time will create a radical difference

The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing alive enough to have strength to die. (from "Neutral Tones")

Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown.