61 Quotes by Jane Welsh Carlyle

There is nothing like a good bit of pain for taking the conceit out of one.

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.

I do think there is much truth in the Young German idea that marriage is a shockingly immoral institution, as well as what we have long known it for - an extremely disagreeable one.

It is much to be wished that one had a post that knew what it was doing again; and lawmakers that knew what they were doing. If I were the Government, I should feel rather ashamed of making regulations one month and unmaking them the next.

Men may be rivals, opponents in their fortunes, and yet be friends in their hearts and fair towards each other's worth; but woman, the instant she is rivaled, becomes unjust.

When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour.

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

the less one does, as I long ago observed, the less one can find time to do.

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