I wonder that among all the evils deprecated in the Liturgy, no one thought of inserting flitting. Is there any worse thing? Oh no, no! — 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 doles' medicine… — 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, I still… — Jane Welsh Carlyle 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 triumphal-procession-air which, in our manners and customs, is given to marriage at the outset - that singing of Te Deum before the battle… — 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 be one… — 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 not a… — 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. - Will it ever be more than a picture? — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share
Men may be rivals, opponents in their fortunes, and yet be friends in their hearts and fair towards each other's worth; but woman, the… — 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 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… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share
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 Copy Share Image
It is much to be wished that one had a post that knew what it was doing again; and lawmakers that knew what they… — Jane Welsh Carlyle 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? Oh no,… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
