Homeopathy - an invention of the Father of Lies! I have tried it and found it wanting. I would swallow their whole… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Better 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 Alas Copy Share Image
There is nothing like a good bit of pain for taking the conceit out of one. — Jane Welsh Carlyle Bit 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 Air 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 Allow 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 Another 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 Anything 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 Becomes 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 Absent 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 Be prepared 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… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Again 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 Among 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
Who knows but I shall grow reasonable at last, descend from my ideal heaven to the real earth, marry, and - Oh… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Descend 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 Awful Copy Share Image
I do think there is much truth in the Young German idea that marriage is a shockingly immoral institution, as well as… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Disagreeable 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 About Copy Share Image
When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour. — Jane Welsh Carlyle Accepting 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 Almost Copy Share Image
Instead of boiling up individuals into the species, I would draw a chalk circle round every individuality, and preach to it to… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Boiling Copy Share Image
I am not at all the sort of person you and I took me for. — Jane Welsh Carlyle Accepting reality 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
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 Certain 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
