Carlyle Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Beside some philosophers of larger vision, Carlyle stands like an honest, half-despairing boy, grasping at some details only of their world systems.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Carlyle's genius was many-sided. He touched and ennobled the national life at all points. He lifted a whole generation of young men out of…

— Hector Carsewell Macpherson

“Then she was in the air, and Carlyle involuntarily held his breath. He had not realized that the dive was nearly forty feet. It…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“THE greatest of English dramatists except Shakespeare, the first literary dictator and poet-laureate, a writer of verse, prose, satire, and criticism who most potently…

— Ben Jonson

“Behind his careful political flippancy and cynicism one might also detect a certain careless sincerity, which would probably in the long run save him…

— Hector Hugh Munro

He was a volatile mixture of confidence and vulnerability. He could deliver extended monologues on professional matters, then promptly stop in his tracks to…

— Alain de Botton

“I'd never felt so helpless - so hopeless - in my life as I did there. To be completely under someone's power, with no…

— Richelle Mead

“Carly stopped at the base of the flags. One more foot forward and she would leave Alaska for the first time, and likely never…

— Lissa Bryan

And from my character's point-of-view in Ravenous, he had been collected by Robert Carlyle's character, he had become infected by this ravenous, cannibalistic power,…

— Jeffrey Jones

No writer besides Shakespeare has created more memorable characters attached to vices and virtues. In even their least sympathetic characters, one senses a kind…

— Roger Rosenblatt

“Waiting in the reception area, she had flicked through a news magazine that had been lying on the table for clients to read while…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“Carly more or less does a controlled fall with one hand on the rope, using it to slow her fall, and lands in a…

— Scott Olen Reid