HARDY, THOMAS : If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone. (Thomas Hardy, English novelist and poet, 1840-1928)

HARDY, THOMAS : The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things. (Thomas Hardy, English novelist and poet, 1840-1928)

HARDY, THOMAS : If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the Inquisition might have let him alone. (Thomas Hardy, English novelist and poet who was highly critical of much in Victorian society, 1840-1928)