Jane Welsh Carlyle
Jane Welsh Carlyle
Jane Welsh Carlylewas the wife of essayist Thomas Carlyle and has been cited as the reason for his fame and fortune. She was most notable as a letter-writer. In 1973, G.B. Tennyson described her as...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth14 January 1801
Jane Welsh Carlyle quotes about
allow brought study
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.
anyone truth whatever
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.
given god
Use the noble gifts which God has given you!
heart attractive quantity
The only thing that makes one place more attractive to me than another is the quantity of heart I find in it.
children littles nasty
Young children are such nasty little beasts!
self justice effort
In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my better half, I still find myself a self-subsisting and alas! self-seeking me.
mother time loss
Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.
grief bitterness
all griefs, when there is no bitterness in them, are soothed down by time.
pride men common-sense
The longer I live, the more I am certified that men, in all that relates to their own health, have not common sense! whether it be their pride, or their impatience, or their obstinancy, or their ingrained spirit of contradiction, that stupefies and misleads them, the result is always a certain amount of idiocy, or distraction in their dealings with their own bodies! ... either by their wild impatience of bodily suffering, and the exaggerated moan they make over it, or else by their reckless defiance of it, and neglect of every dictate of prudence!
mother loss world
the longer one lives in this hard world motherless, the more a mother's loss makes itself felt ...
long care cracked
cracked things often hold out as long as whole things; one takes so much better care of them!
make-happy insane youth
youth is so insatiable of happiness, and has such sublimely insane faith in its own power to make happy and be happy!
children fool bait
The glittering baits of titles and honours are only for children and fools.
people drunk promise
I rely on the promise, God is kind to women, fools, and drunk people.