Charles Dudley Warner
Charles Dudley Warner
Charles Dudley Warnerwas an American essayist, novelist, and friend of Mark Twain, with whom he co-authored the novel The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth12 September 1829
CountryUnited States of America
nature faults reform
Nature is entirely indifferent to any reform. She perpetuates a fault as persistently as a virtue.
real simple legends
A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend-"just as good as the real.
women moral walks
A woman set on anything will walk right through the moral crockery without wincing.
friends fruit prosperity
Nothing shows one who his friends are like prosperity and ripe fruit.
kindness heart forever
The stranger who receives the rare gift of human kindness holds its value in his heart forever.
passion oats dirt
The love of dirt is among the earliest of passions, as it is the latest.
sea fishing rivers
It is well known that no person who regards his reputation will ever kill a trout with anything but a fly. It requires some training on the part of the trout to take to this method. The uncultivated, unsophisticated trout in unfrequented waters prefers the bait; and the rural people, whose sole object in going a-fishing appears to be to catch fish, indulge them in their primitive taste for the worm. No sportsman however, will use anything but the fly, except when he happens to be alone.
nature fancy facts
Nature is, in fact, a suggester of uneasiness, a promoter of pilgrimages and of excursions of the fancy which never come to any satisfactory haven.
solitude isolation conceit
Isolation breeds conceit.
weed garden names
I do not know the names of all the weeds and plants, I have to do as Adam did in his garden... name things as I find them.
responsibility garden awful
A garden is an awful responsibility. You never know what you may be aiding to grow in it.
selfish opportunity people
I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.
boys practice world
One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one
cat going-away noses
If there was any petting to be done...he chose to do it. Often he would sit looking at me, and then, moved by a delicate affection, come and pull at my coat and sleeve until he could touch my face with his nose, and then go away contented.