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Quotes by Thomas Hood

A certain portion of the human race has certainly a taste for being diddled.
– Thomas Hood
A moment's thinking is an hour in words.
– Thomas Hood
But evil is wrought by want of thought as well as want of heart!
– Thomas Hood
Frost is the greatest artist in our clime - he paints in nature and describes in rime.
– Thomas Hood
Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold.
– Thomas Hood
I don't set up for being a cosmopolite, which to any mind signifies being polite to every country except your own.
– Thomas Hood
I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence.
– Thomas Hood
My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon.
– Thomas Hood
Never go to France - unless you know the lingo, if you do like me, you will repent by jingo.
– Thomas Hood
Oh, God! that bread should be so dear! And flesh and blood so cheap!
– Thomas Hood
Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine!
– Thomas Hood
Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.
– Thomas Hood
That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defence of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.
– Thomas Hood
The best of friends fall out, and so his teeth had done some years ago.
– Thomas Hood
There are three things which the public will always clamor for, sooner or later: namely, novelty, novelty, novelty.
– Thomas Hood
There is even a happiness - that makes the heart afraid.
– Thomas Hood
To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind.
– Thomas Hood