Jane Welsh Carlyle quotes

The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope. (Jane Welsh Carlyle)
When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour. View quote
Jane Welsh Carlyle
I am not at all the sort of person you and I took me for. View quote
Jane Welsh Carlyle
Not a hundredth part of the thoughts in my head have ever been or ever will be spoken or written - as long as I keep my senses, at least. View quote
Jane Welsh Carlyle
The glittering baits of titles and honours are only for children and fools. View quote
Jane Welsh Carlyle
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! View quote
Jane Welsh Carlyle
I rely on the promise, God is kind to women, fools, and drunk people. View quote
Jane Welsh Carlyle
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. View quote
Jane Welsh Carlyle
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. View quote
Jane Welsh Carlyle
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. View quote
Jane Welsh Carlyle
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. (Jane Welsh Carlyle)
How many precious things do we not already possess which others have not - have hardly an idea of! Let us enjoy these, then, and bless God that we are permitted to enjoy them, rather than importune His goodness with vain longings for more. View quote
Jane Welsh Carlyle
Teaching, I find, is not the most amusing thing on earth; in fact, with a stupid lump for a Pupil, it is about the most irksome. View quote
Jane Welsh Carlyle
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. View quote
Jane Welsh Carlyle
Young children are such nasty little beasts! View quote
Jane Welsh Carlyle
I have lived so long among people who do not understand me, been so long accustomed to refrain and disguise myself for fear of being laughed at, that I have grown as difficult to come at as a snail in a shell; and what is worse, I cannot come out of my shell when I wish it. View quote
Jane Welsh Carlyle
Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it. Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother. View quote
Jane Welsh Carlyle
Does not a man physically tremble under the mere look of a wild beast or fellow-man that is stronger than himself? Does not a woman redden all over when she feels her lover's eyes on her? How then should one doubt the mysterious power of one individual over another? View quote
Jane Welsh Carlyle
I can see that the Lady has a genius for ruling, whilst I have a genius for not being ruled. View quote
Jane Welsh Carlyle
Oh Lord! If you but knew what a brimstone of a creature I am behind all this beautiful amiability! View quote
Jane Welsh Carlyle
'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. (Jane Welsh Carlyle)
Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother. View quote
Jane Welsh Carlyle
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? View quote
Jane Welsh Carlyle