I am not at all the sort of person you and I took me for. — Jane Welsh Carlyle Accepting reality Copy Share Image
I rely on the promise, 'God is kind to women, fools, and drunk people.' — Jane Welsh Carlyle Drunk Copy Share Image
When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour. — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
the less one does, as I long ago observed, the less one can find time to do. — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
all griefs, when there is no bitterness in them, are soothed down by time. — Jane Welsh Carlyle Anger Copy Share Image
There is nothing like a good bit of pain for taking the conceit out of one. — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
The longer one lives in this hard world motherless, the more a mother's loss makes itself felt. — Jane Welsh Carlyle Death Copy Share Image
The only thing that makes one place more attractive to me than another is the quantity of heart I find in it. — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
Either I am just what God intended me for, or God cannot 'carry out' His intentions, it would seem. — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
There is never much to be feared for anyone that is born with sense and truth in him, whatever else he may… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
One of the main uses of a home is to stay in it, when one is too weak and spiritless for conforming,… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
If I have an antipathy for any class of people, it is for fine ladies. I almost match my Husband's detestation of… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. — Jane Welsh Carlyle Bereavement Copy Share Image
Teaching, I find, is not the most amusing thing on earth; in fact, with a stupid lump for a Pupil, it is… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
They call me 'sweet,' and 'gentle'; and some of the men go the length of calling me 'endearing,' and I laugh in… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
If they had said that the sun or the moon had gone out of the heavens, it could not have struck me… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
Homeopathy - an invention of the Father of Lies! I have tried it and found it wanting. I would swallow their whole… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
Does not a man physically tremble under the mere look of a wild beast or fellow-man that is stronger than himself? Does… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
It is sad and wrong to be so dependent for the life of my life on any human being as I am… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
It is odd what notions men seem to have of the scantiness of a woman's resources. They do not find it anything… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
Indeed, I should be very stupid or very thankless if I did not congratulate myself every hour of the day on the… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my better half,… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
The longer I live, the more I am certified that men, in all that relates to their own health, have not common… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
Blessed be the inventor of photography! I set him above even the inventor of chloroform! It has given more positive pleasure to… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
The glittering baits of titles and honours are only for children and fools. — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
A fashionable wife! Oh! Never will I be anything so heartless! I have pictured for myself a far higher destiny than this.… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
The triumphal-procession-air which, in our manners and customs, is given to marriage at the outset - that singing of Te Deum before… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
Not a hundredth part of the thoughts in my head have ever been or ever will be spoken or written — as… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Funny Copy Share Image
People who are so dreadfully "devoted" to their wives are so apt, from mere habit, to get devoted to other people's wives… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Habit Copy Share Image
youth is so insatiable of happiness, and has such sublimely insane faith in its own power to make happy and be happy! — Jane Welsh Carlyle Happiness Copy Share Image
'On earth the living have much to bear;' the difference is chiefly in the manner of bearing, and my manner of bearing… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
The habits of study in which I have been brought up have done much to support me. I never allow myself to… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
cracked things often hold out as long as whole things; one takes so much better care of them! — Jane Welsh Carlyle Care Copy Share Image
I wonder that among all the evils deprecated in the Liturgy, no one thought of inserting flitting. Is there any worse thing?… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
Men may be rivals, opponents in their fortunes, and yet be friends in their hearts and fair towards each other's worth; but… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
A positive engagement to marry a certain person at a certain time, at all haps and hazards, I have always considered the… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
