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
long care cracked
cracked things often hold out as long as whole things; one takes so much better care of them!
favour injustice accepting
When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour.
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!
grief bitterness
all griefs, when there is no bitterness in them, are soothed down by time.
long-ago long laziness
the less one does, as I long ago observed, the less one can find time to do.
personality persons
I am not at all the sort of person you and I took me for.
death bereavement trying
Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement.
wife people infidelity
People who are so dreadfully "devoted" to their wives are so apt, from mere habit, to get devoted to other people's wives as well.
moon ideas heaven
If they had said that the sun or the moon had gone out of the heavens, it could not have struck me with the idea of a more awful and dreary blank in creation than the words: Byron is dead!
mother loss world
the longer one lives in this hard world motherless, the more a mother's loss makes itself felt ...
destiny wife heartless
A fashionable wife! Oh! Never will I be anything so heartless! I have pictured for myself a far higher destiny than this. - Will it ever be more than a picture?
differences bears earth
On earth the living have much to bear; the difference is chiefly in the manner of bearing, and my manner of bearing is far from being the best.
circles justice individuality
Instead of boiling up individuals into the species, I would draw a chalk circle round every individuality, and preach to it to keep within that, and preserve and cultivate its identity.
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.