Charles Kingsley

The loveliest fairy in the world; and her name is Mrs Do as you would bed one by.

— Charles Kingsley

“He was one of those men, moreover, who possess almost every gift except the gift of the power to use them;”

— Charles Kingsley

Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day.

— Charles Kingsley

“around which pigs and barefoot children grunted in loving communion of dirt.”

— Charles Kingsley

He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.

— Charles Kingsley

If "ifs" and "ands" were pots and pans, there'd be no work for tinkers' hands

— Charles Kingsley

For men must work and women must weep, And the sooner it's over, the sooner to sleep.

— Charles Kingsley

Nature's deepest laws, her own true laws, are her invisible ones.

— Charles Kingsley

“he came to the conclusion that there was some mysterious connection between cleverness and unhappiness, and thanking his stars that he was…

— Charles Kingsley

In the four hundred and thirteenth year of the Christian era, some three hundred miles above Alexandria, the young monk Philammon was…

— Charles Kingsley

See the land, her Easter keeping, Rises as her Maker rose. Seeds, so long in darkness sleeping, Burst at last from winter…

— Charles Kingsley

Take comfort, and recollect however little you and I may know, God knows; He knows Himself and you and me and all…

— Charles Kingsley

“[...] his little whirl-about of a head was so full of the notion of going out to see the world, that it…

— Charles Kingsley

This is the feeling that gives a man true courage-the feeling that he has a work to do at all costs; the…

— Charles Kingsley

Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long; And so make…

— Charles Kingsley

We have used the Bible as if it was a mere special constable's handbook — an opium-dose for keeping beasts of burden…

— Charles Kingsley

All who have travelled through the delicious scenery of North Devon must needs know the little white town of Bideford, which slopes…

— Charles Kingsley

“Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book. A message to us from the dead - from human…

— Charles Kingsley

[At the end of the story, its main character, Tom] is now a great man of science, and can plan railroads, and…

— Charles Kingsley

“Up comes duty like a jolly breeze, blowing dead from the northeast, and as bitter and cross as a northeaster too, and…

— Charles Kingsley

“I have lived long enough in courts, old Amyas, without a murrain on you, to have found out, first, that it is…

— Charles Kingsley

“‎"The men whom I have seen succeed best in life have always been cheerful and hopeful men, who went about their business…

— Charles Kingsley

Madame Nature allows no dangerous classes, in the modern sense. She has, doubtless for some wise reason, no mercy for the weak.…

— Charles Kingsley

“Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do which must be done, whether you like it…

— Charles Kingsley

Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.

— Charles Kingsley

“...children always wake after they have slept exactly as long as is good for them..”

— Charles Kingsley

“Ignorance and evil, even in full flight, deal terrible backhanded      strokes at their pursuers."—HELPS.”

— Charles Kingsley

Do what thou dost as if the earth were heaven, and thy last day the day of judgment.

— Charles Kingsley

So fleet the works of men, back to their earth again;Ancient and holy things fade like a dream.

— Charles Kingsley

Give me something huge to fight, — and I should enjoy that — but why make me sweep the dust?

— Charles Kingsley

“if you do not know, reader, what a Fisher Hobbs is, you know nothing about pigs, and deserve no bacon for breakfast.”

— Charles Kingsley

Oh England is a pleasant place for them that's rich and high, But England is a cruel place for such poor folks…

— Charles Kingsley

“where the Coffins had lived ever since Noah's flood (if, indeed, they had not merely returned thither after that temporary displacement),”

— Charles Kingsley

Wherever is love and loyalty, great purposes and lofty souls, even though in a hovel or a mine, there is fairyland.

— Charles Kingsley

O Mary, go and call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, Across the sands o'…

— Charles Kingsley

“Don't talk of rights in the land of wrongs, man. But the Inchiquin knows well that the true Irish Esau has no…

— Charles Kingsley

There are two freedoms; The false, where man is free to do what he likes; The true, where man is free to…

— Charles Kingsley

There will be no true freedom without virtue, no true science without religion, no true industry without the fear of God and…

— Charles Kingsley

For to be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ and first…

— Charles Kingsley

Make a rule, and pray to God to help you to keep it, never, if possible, to lie down at night without…

— Charles Kingsley