A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.


G.H. Hardy

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CHARLES HARDY
I may do some good before I am dead--be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; ...
THOMAS HARDY
There are disappointments which wring us, and there are those which inflict a wound whose mark we be...
THOMAS HARDY
Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?
THOMAS HARDY
Then if we make it to tomorrow, we'll be here to pick up the pieces, and help him carry his load. Th...
DIANNA HARDY
This good fellowship - camaraderie - usually occurring through the similarity of pursuits is unfortu...
THOMAS HARDY
Women are never tired of bewailing man’s fickleness in love, but they only seem to snub his consta...
THOMAS HARDY
He never knew a single second could be expanded into something timeless and so archaic. It shook him...
DIANNA HARDY
So each had a private little sun for her soul to bask in; some dream, some affection, some hobby, or...
THOMAS HARDY
Let truth be told - women do as a rule live through such humiliations, and regain their spirits, and...
THOMAS HARDY
You, and those like you, take your fill of pleasure on earth by making the life of such as me bitter...
THOMAS HARDY
Don't think of what's past!" said she. "I am not going to think outside of now. Why should we! Who k...
THOMAS HARDY
Doing what's right is seldom easy.
JANICE HARDY
Doing whats right is never easy ... You think you're right, but you lose track of what you were tryi...
JANICE HARDY
I live in a loft in a building I designed, but for my dream house I'd get Frank Gehry, just to s...
HUGH HARDY
Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
THOMAS HARDY
I'm from a nice, suburban, middle-class family, but my tattoos remind me where I've been.
TOM HARDY
And at home by the fire, whenever you look up there I shall be— and whenever I look up, there will...
THOMAS HARDY
I'm incredibly grateful to be playing the villain in a world which, if I really thought to hard ...
TOM HARDY
I always thought we would have Mardi Gras if we had a city.
ARTHUR HARDY
Theater publicly reveals the human condition through appealing to both intellect and emotion. Archit...
HUGH HARDY
--the ethereal, fine-nerved, sensitive girl, quite unfitted by temperament and instinct to fulfil th...
THOMAS HARDY
Everybody must be managed. Queens must be managed. Kings must be managed, for men want managing almo...
THOMAS HARDY
Like all people who have known rough times, light-heartedness seemed to her too irrational and incon...
THOMAS HARDY
She seemed to be occupied with of inner chamber of ideas and to have slight need for visible objects...
THOMAS HARDY
...who remained as fixed in the arm-chair as if she had been melted into it when in a liquid state, ...
THOMAS HARDY
Her suspense was terrible.
THOMAS HARDY
If she had not been imprudence incarnate, she would not have acted as she did when she met Henchard ...
THOMAS HARDY
Yet her experience had consisted less in a series of pure disappointments than in a series of substi...
THOMAS HARDY
The curious double strands in Farfrae's thread of life - the commercial and the romantic - were very...
THOMAS HARDY
With peace of mind came development, and with development beauty. Knowledge—the result of great na...
THOMAS HARDY
Fancies find room in the strongest minds. Here, in a churchyard old as civilization, in the worst of...
THOMAS HARDY