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
photography country art
Blessed be the inventor of photography! I set him above even the inventor of chloroform! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that has ''cast up'' in my time or is like to -- this art by which even the ''poor'' can possess themselves of tolerable likenesses of their absent dear ones. And mustn't it be acting favorably on the morality of the country?
engagement earth hazards
A positive engagement to marry a certain person at a certain time, at all haps and hazards, I have always considered the most ridiculous thing on earth.
air singing battle
The triumphal-procession-air which, in our manners and customs, is given to marriage at the outset - that singing of Te Deum before the battle has begun.
mother time loss
Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.
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.
children littles nasty
Young children are such nasty little beasts!
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.
descend ideal knows oh reasonable shall
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?
given god
Use the noble gifts which God has given you!
grief bitterness
all griefs, when there is no bitterness in them, are soothed down by time.
mother loss world
the longer one lives in this hard world motherless, the more a mother's loss makes itself felt ...
people drunk promise
I rely on the promise, God is kind to women, fools, and drunk people.
lying father medicine
Homeopathy - an invention of the Father of Lies! I have tried it and found it wanting. I would swallow their whole doles medicine chest for sixpence, and be sure of finding myself neither better nor worse for it.
preparation way exclusion
The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.