Quotes by Jane Welsh Carlyle

Jane Welsh Carlyle

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?

Destiny

Heartless

Wife

A positive engagement to marry a certain person at a certain time, at all haps and hazards, I have always considered the most ridiculous thing on earth.

Earth

Engagement

Hazards

all griefs, when there is no bitterness in them, are soothed down by time.

Bitterness

Grief

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 it be acting favorably on the morality of the country?

Art

Country

Photography

cracked things often hold out as long as whole things; one takes so much better care of them!

Care

Cracked

Long

Homeopathy – an invention of the Father of Lies! I have tried it and found it wanting. I would swallow their whole doles medicine chest for sixpence, and be sure of finding myself neither better nor worse for it.

Father

Lying

Medicine

How many precious things do we not already possess which others have not – have hardly an idea of! Let us enjoy these, then, and bless God that we are permitted to enjoy them, rather than importune His goodness with vain longings for more.

Goodness

Ideas

Longing

I am not at all the sort of person you and I took me for.

Accepting Reality

Personality

Persons

I rely on the promise, God is kind to women, fools, and drunk people.

Drunk

People

Promise

If they had said that the sun or the moon had gone out of the heavens, it could not have struck me with the idea of a more awful and dreary blank in creation than the words: Byron is dead!

Heaven

Ideas

Moon

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Accepting

Accepting Reality

Air

Art

Attractive

Attractiveness

Bait

Battle

Bears

Bereavement

Bitterness

Care

Children

Circles

Common Sense

Country

Cracked

Death

Destiny

Differences

Diversity

Doe

Drunk

Earth

Engagement

Facts

Father

Favour

Fool

Goodness

Grief

Hazards

Heart

Heartless

Heaven

Hope

Ideas

Infidelity

Injustice

Insane

Justice

Life

Littles

Logic

Long

Long Ago

Longing

Loss

Lying

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Quotes by Jane Welsh Carlyle

Jane Welsh Carlyle

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?

A positive engagement to marry a certain person at a certain time, at all haps and hazards, I have always considered the most ridiculous thing on earth.

all griefs, when there is no bitterness in them, are soothed down by time.

cracked things often hold out as long as whole things; one takes so much better care of them!

Homeopathy – an invention of the Father of Lies! I have tried it and found it wanting. I would swallow their whole doles medicine chest for sixpence, and be sure of finding myself neither better nor worse for it.

How many precious things do we not already possess which others have not – have hardly an idea of! Let us enjoy these, then, and bless God that we are permitted to enjoy them, rather than importune His goodness with vain longings for more.

I am not at all the sort of person you and I took me for.

I rely on the promise, God is kind to women, fools, and drunk people.

If they had said that the sun or the moon had gone out of the heavens, it could not have struck me with the idea of a more awful and dreary blank in creation than the words: Byron is dead!

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