Top 100 Carlyle Quotes
#1. Poor white trash quoting de Maistre and Carlyle and fancying themselves elite while they scrabbled to survive in a world where they were outstripped economically by the Chinese and intellectually by their own phones.
Ken MacLeod
#2. 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, and he was making the best of it.
Jeffrey Jones
#3. As Carlyle put it - All that mankind has done, thought, gained or been - it is lying in matchless preservation in the pages of books.
Napoleon Hill
#4. I've discovered why you fascinate - you keep the mystery and as Carlyle noted, Wonder is the basis of worship ...
John Geddes
#5. Perhaps the greatest lesson [Huxley] learned from reading Carlyle was that real religion, that emotive feeling for Truth and Beauty, could flourish in the absence of an idolatrous theology.
Adrian Desmond
#6. you come to understand that history might be, as Thomas Carlyle put it, "a distillation of rumor," or, as Napoleon said, "a set of lies generally agreed upon
James Alexander Thom
#7. The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. - historian and essayist Thomas Carlyle
Carol Tavris
#8. My books are friends that never fail me.
(Letter to his mother, Margaret A. Carlyle; 17 March 1817)
Thomas Carlyle
#9. A great man shows his greatness,' said Carlyle, 'by the way he treats little men.
Anonymous
#10. Getting to perform at the Carlyle, following in the footsteps of women like Elaine Stritch, Barbara Cook, Christine Ebersole, Kelli O'Hara, and so many others, is nothing short of a dream come true.
Laura Osnes
#11. For bourgeois classes as such have seldom before and never since displayed heroism. It was "the last of our heroisms", as Carlyle, not without reason, has said.
Max Weber
#12. Emerson loved the good and his life was a symphony of peace and harmony, Carlyle hated the bad, and his life was a record of perpetual discord and inharmony.
Charles F. Haanel
#13. The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder. - Thomas Carlyle For
Michael Hyatt
#14. Carlyle uttered a pregnant truth when he said that the history of any country is in the biographies of the men who made it.
Andrew Dickson White
#15. Here Carlyle had come, here George Eliot had progressed through the bookshelves. Roland could see her black silk skirts, her velvet trains, sweeping compressed between the Fathers of the Church, and heard her firm foot ring on metal among the German poets.
A.S. Byatt
#16. (Quoted by Thomas Carlyle) The rude man requires only to see something going on. The man of more refinement must be made to feel. The man of complete refinement must be made to reflect.
Thomas Carlyle
#17. Carlyle spread her hands. 'I speculated that it was the remains of the starship that took the Eurydiceans to the planet. This seems to have been borne out.' She smiled. 'It transmitted a defensive virus that contained Microsoft patches.
Ken MacLeod
#19. Do you know what else I think? I think I like the idea of Lola Carlyle worrying about me. He slid his knuckle along her jaw to her chin and she held her breath.
Rachel Gibson
#20. In England I am always madam; I arrived too late to ever be a miss. In New York I have only been madamed once, by the doorman at the Carlyle Hotel.
Anna Quindlen
#21. The ideal is within you, and the obstacle to reaching this ideal is also within you. You already possess all the material from which to create your ideal self. - THOMAS CARLYLE
Leo Tolstoy
#22. For all the enlightened nations that profess a loyalty to liberty, democracy, economy and all the rest, there has long been a readiness to look for a chosen one; as Carlyle pointed out, even the French, those great anti-venerators, those relentless beheaders of Great Men, worshipped Voltaire.
Chris Anderson
#23. TEN GREATEST ENGLISH POETS Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, Burns, Wordsworth, Keats, Shelley, Tennyson, Browning. TEN GREATEST ENGLISH ESSAYISTS Bacon, Addison, Steele, Macaulay, Lamb, Jeffrey, De Quincey, Carlyle, Thackeray and Matthew Arnold.
Joseph Devlin
#24. Popular opinion is oftenest, what Carlyle pronounced it to be, a lie!
Wendell Phillips
#25. This need to know things at the level of basic experience, and the reluctance to be fobbed off by the official story or the popular rumor, was a part of the "infinite capacity for taking pains" that Thomas Carlyle once described as the constituent of genius.
Christopher Hitchens
#26. Something which, for want of a more definite term at present, I must be permitted to be called queer; but which Mr. Coleridge would have called mystical, Mr. Kant pantheistical, Mr. Carlyle twistical, and Mr. Emerson hyperquizzitistical.
Edgar Allan Poe
#27. Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. Thomas Carlyle
Bohdi Sanders
#28. Carlyle must undoubtedly plead guilty to the charge of mannerism. He not only has his vein, but his peculiar manner of working it.He has a style which can be imitated, and sometimes is an imitator of himself.
Henry David Thoreau
#29. Carlyle said 'a lie cannot live.' It shows that he did not know how to tell them.
Mark Twain
#30. Force, force, everywhere force; we ourselves a mysterious force in the centre of that. "There is not a leaf rotting on the highway but has Force in it: how else could it rot?" [As used in his time, by the word force, Carlyle means energy.]
Thomas Carlyle
#31. Of all the acts of man, repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults ... is to be conscious of none. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle
#32. 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
#33. The English historian Thomas Carlyle defined a person's religion as the set of values evident in his or her actions, regardless of what the individual would claim to believe when asked.
Terryl L. Givens
#34. Carlyle said that how to observe was to look, but I say that it is rather to see, and the more you look the less you will observe.
Henry David Thoreau
#35. For God's sake, man!" Frederick Carlyle bellowed across the room. "At least wait until you're alone before you kiss her, if you please! Remember, her family is watching you, and we haven't had our dinner yet!
Stephanie Burgis
#36. Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
Thomas Carlyle
#38. For a while, it felt like I was on top of the universe. I didn't realize that I was about to fall.
Carlyle Labuschagne
#40. It is a thing forever changing, this of Hero-worship: different in each age, difficult to do well in any age. Indeed, the heart of the whole business of the age, one may say, is to do it well.
Thomas Carlyle
#41. My wife was a make-up artist, and she's a total product junkie. Our bathroom is packed full of lotions and potions so I end up trying them out.
Robert Carlyle
#42. I do tend to divide my childhood into darkness and light, and the first seven years were certainly the darkness.
Robert Carlyle
#43. In a different time, in a different place, it is always some other side of our common human nature that has been developing itself. The actual truth is the sum of all these.
Thomas Carlyle
#44. The vulgarity of inanimate things requires time to get accustomed to; but living, breathing, bustling, plotting, planning, human vulgarity is a species of moral ipecacuanha, enough to destroy any comfort.
Thomas Carlyle
#45. The goal of yesterday will be our starting-point to-morrow.
Thomas Carlyle
#46. It depends who the director is you know, I mean Ken Loach for instance. I've done up to 32 takes with him.
Robert Carlyle
#47. Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
Thomas Carlyle
#48. There must be a new world if there is to be any world at all! ... These days of universal death must be days of universal new birth, if the ruin is not to be total and final! It is Time to make the dullest man consider; and ask himself, Whence he came? Whither he is bound?
Thomas Carlyle
#50. Man is a tool using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
Thomas Carlyle
#51. A thinking man is the worst enemy the Prince of Darkness can have; every time such an one announces himself, I doubt not there runs a shudder through the nether empire; and new emissaries are trained with new tactics, to, if possible, entrap and hoodwink and handcuff him.
Thomas Carlyle
#52. The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off.
Thomas Carlyle
#54. Neither in tailoring nor in legislating does man proceed by mere accident.
Thomas Carlyle
#55. There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in idleness alone there is perpetual despair.
Thomas Carlyle
#57. Whoso has sixpence is sovereign (to the length of sixpence) over all men; commands cooks to feed him, philosophers to teach him, kings to mount guard over him,to the length of sixpence.
Thomas Carlyle
#58. With stupidity and sound digestion, man may front much.
Thomas Carlyle
#60. Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.
Thomas Carlyle
#61. He who would write heroic poems should make his whole life a heroic poem.
Thomas Carlyle
#62. For every one hundred men who can stand adversity there is only one who can withstand prosperity.
Thomas Carlyle
#63. Money, in truth, can do much, but it cannot do all. We must know the province of it, and confine it there, and even spurn it back when it wishes to get farther.
Thomas Carlyle
#64. Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.
Thomas Carlyle
#65. The mystical bond of brotherhood makes all men brothers.
Thomas Carlyle
#66. They call me 'sweet,' and 'gentle'; and some of the men go the length of calling me 'endearing,' and I laugh in my sleeve and think, 'Oh, Lord! If you but knew what a brimstone of a creature I am behind all this beautiful amiability!'
Jane Welsh Carlyle
#67. What I loved in the man was his health, his unity with himself; all people and all things seemed to find their quite peaceable adjustment with him, not a proud domineering one, as after doubtful contest, but a spontaneous-looking peaceable, even humble one.
Thomas Carlyle
#68. The great silent man! Looking round on the noisy inanity of the world,
words with little meaning, actions with little worth,
one loves to reflect on the great Empire of Silence.
Thomas Carlyle
#69. Biologically, I'm lucky - an angular face and dark colouring which shows up well on camera.
Robert Carlyle
#70. Great men taken up in any way are profitable company. We cannot look, however imperfectly, upon a great man without gaining something by him.
Thomas Carlyle
#71. Deceivingly, Miss Neville, the word vodka means 'little water.' The Russians are masters of the understatement. - Lord Nash
Liz Carlyle
#72. To each is given a certain inward talent, a certain outward environment or fortune; to each by wisest combination of these two, a certain maximum capacity.
Thomas Carlyle
#74. I've always taken my love of children from my father. He was a children magnet. Suddenly, having my first child hit home what my dad went through.
Robert Carlyle
#75. The All of Things is an infinite conjugation of the verb To do .
Thomas Carlyle
#76. There are female dandies as well as clothes-wearing men; and the former are as objectionable as the latter.
Thomas Carlyle
#77. In no time whatever can small critics entirely eradicate out of living men's hearts a certain altogether peculiar collar reverence for Great Men
genuine admiration, loyalty, adora-tion.
Thomas Carlyle
#78. The steam-engine I call fire-demon and great; but it is nothing to the invention of fire.
Thomas Carlyle
#79. Metaphysics is the attempt of the mind to rise above the mind.
Thomas Carlyle
#81. Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices of great men, so it is likewise reformed by their moderation.
Thomas Carlyle
#82. Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism; with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity; men now even die, and kill one another, in an artificial manner.
Thomas Carlyle
#83. I want to keep audiences off balance, so they don't know who I am or how to take me. If I duck and weave, as Frank Bruno might say, I'll have a longer shelf life.
Robert Carlyle
#85. I think I have a natural, if I can say that, got a kind of natural ability in comedy.
Robert Carlyle
#88. Every poet ... finds himself born in the midst of prose. He has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into the freedom and infinitude of an ideal.
Thomas Carlyle
#89. Enjoying things which are pleasant; that is not the evil; it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.
Thomas Carlyle
#90. A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.
Thomas Carlyle
#91. A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
Thomas Carlyle
#92. We observe with confidence that the truly strong mind, view it as intellect or morality, or under any other aspect, is nowise the mind acquainted with its strength; that here the sign of health is unconsciousness.
Thomas Carlyle
#93. He who takes not counsel of the Unseen and Silent, from him will never come real visibility and speech.
Thomas Carlyle
#94. Show me the man you honor; I know by that symptom, better than by any other, what kind of man you yourself are. For you show me there what your ideal of manhood is; what kind of man you long inexpressibly to be.
Thomas Carlyle
#95. The eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing."
Thomas Carlyle
#96. Most of the time, you find that the smaller the budget, the more the project is about something substantive.
Robert Carlyle
#97. Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain-tricks of custom: but of all of these, perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the miraculous, by simple repetition, ceases to be miraculous.
Thomas Carlyle
#98. The script will point you in certain directions and I go the opposite if I can. I try do do one thing and tell a different story with my eyes. I believe what's more interesting is always what's not being said.
Robert Carlyle
#99. Time is the silent, never-resting thing ... rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing oceantide, on which we and all the universe swim.
Thomas Carlyle
#100. If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
Thomas Carlyle
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