Young children are such nasty little beasts!
JANE WELSH CARLYLERelated Topics
Anand Thakur
Young children are such nasty little beasts!
JANE WELSH CARLYLE
All griefs, when there is no bitterness in them, are soothed down by time.
JANE WELSH CARLYLE
The longer one lives in this hard world motherless, the more a mother’s loss makes itself felt.
JANE WELSH CARLYLE
It is sad and wrong to be so dependent for the life of my life on any human being as I am on you; but I cannot by any force of logic cure myself at this date, when it has become second nature.
JANE WELSH CARLYLE
On earth the living have much to bear; the difference is chiefly in the manner of bearing, and my manner of bearing is far from being the best.
JANE WELSH CARLYLE
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
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
I am not at all the sort of person you and I took me for.
JANE WELSH CARLYLE
I rely on the promise, God is kind to women, fools, and drunk people.
JANE WELSH CARLYLE
The glittering baits of titles and honours are only for children and fools.
JANE WELSH CARLYLE
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 has begun.
JANE WELSH CARLYLE
When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour.
JANE WELSH CARLYLE
The less one does, as I long ago observed, the less one can find time to do.
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?
JANE WELSH CARLYLE
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.
JANE WELSH CARLYLE
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