Jane Welsh Carlyle Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“Men may be rivals, opponents in their fortunes, and yet be friends in their hearts and fair towards each other's worth; but woman, the instant she is rivaled, becomes unjust.”

“Who knows but I shall grow reasonable at last, descend from my ideal heaven to the real earth, marry, and - Oh Plato! - make a pudding?”

“Either I am just what God intended me for, or God cannot 'carry out' His intentions, it would seem.”

“I wonder that among all the evils deprecated in the Liturgy, no one thought of inserting flitting. Is there any worse thing? Oh no, no!”

“If I have an antipathy for any class of people, it is for fine ladies. I almost match my Husband's detestation of partridge-shooting gentlemen.”

“The habits of study in which I have been brought up have done much to support me. I never allow myself to be one moment unoccupied.”

“The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.”

“There is never much to be feared for anyone that is born with sense and truth in him, whatever else he may have or want.”

“Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.”

“Use the noble gifts which God has given you!”