209 Quotes by Charles Kingsley

Oh England is a pleasant place for them that's rich and high, But England is a cruel place for such poor folks as I

More ways of killing a cat than choking her with cream.

And now I'm old and going--I'm sure I can't tell where; One comfort is, this world's so hard, I can't be worse off there

For men must work and women must weep./ And the sooner it's over, the sooner to sleep.

There will be no true freedom without virtue, no true science without religion, no true industry without the fear of God and love to your fellow citizens.

He did not know that a keeper is only a poacher turned outside in, and a poacher a keeper turned inside out.

All the butterflies and cockyolybirds would fly past me.

To be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ of the first upgrowth of all virtue.

Now, to tell my story--if not as it ought to be told, at least as I can tell it,--I must go back sixteen years, to the days when Whitbury boasted of forty coaches per diem, instead of one railway, and set forth how in its southern suburb, there stood two pleasant house side by side, with their gardens sloping down to the Whit, and parted from each other only by the high brick fruit-wall, through which there used to be a door of communication; for the two occupiers were fast friends.