Top 100 Carlyle's Quotes
#1. 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
#2. People who are so dreadfully "devoted" to their wives are so apt, from mere habit, to get devoted to other people's wives as well.
Jane Welsh Carlyle
#3. The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.
Thomas Carlyle
#4. There are a lot of things that make up a performance, a lot of technical things. It isn't always just about pulling it up from the darkest recesses of your mind or your heart. It's your experience and your observation.
Robert Carlyle
#5. The longer one lives in this hard world motherless, the more a mother's loss makes itself felt ...
Jane Welsh Carlyle
#6. A man's religion consists, not of the many things he is in doubt of and tries to believe, but of the few he is assured of and has no need of effort for believing.
Thomas Carlyle
#7. If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.
Thomas Carlyle
#8. History, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first distinct product of man's spiritual nature, his earliest expression of what may be called thought.
Thomas Carlyle
#9. There's a kind of unwritten rule: Don't say anything at all, and everything will be fine. It's a producer's medium. The directors aren't there to make any decisions. They're not going to change anything.
Robert Carlyle
#10. In the late '70s, maybe just before I started, there was still an attitude that if you did film you didn't do TV and vice versa, but that's gone now.
Robert Carlyle
#11. God gave you that gifted tongue of yours, and set it between your teeth, to make known your true meaning to us, not to be rattled like a muffin man's bell.
Thomas Carlyle
#12. When Pococke inquired of Grotius, where the proof was of that story of the pigeon, trained to pick peas from Mahomet's (Muhammad's) ear, and pass for an angel dictating to him? Grotius answered that there was no proof! ...
Thomas Carlyle
#13. The true epic of our times is not "Arm's and the Man," but "Tools and the Man"
an infinitely wider kind of epic.
Thomas Carlyle
#14. Freedom is the one purport, wisely aimed at, or unwisely, of all man's struggles, toilings and sufferings, in this earth.
Thomas Carlyle
#15. The greatest of all heroes is One
whom we do not name here! Let sacred silence meditate that sacred matter; you will find it the ultimate perfection of a principle extant throughout man's whole history on earth.
Thomas Carlyle
#16. All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.
Thomas Carlyle
#17. The man's hands had a terrible unsettling power over her. He didn't brush or lightly graze her skin. He stroked her, caressed her, as if he wished to give her pleasure rather than take his own.
Christy Carlyle
#18. A fair day's wage for a fair day's work: it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing. It is the everlasting right of man.
Thomas Carlyle
#19. It is great, and there is no other greatness-to make one nook of God's Creation more fruitful, better, more worthy of God; to make some human heart a little wiser, manlier, happier-more blessed.
Thomas Carlyle
#21. How, without clothes, could we possess the master organ, soul's seat and true pineal gland of the body social
I mean a purse?
Thomas Carlyle
#22. A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.
Thomas Carlyle
#23. When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man's soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances.
Thomas Carlyle
#24. The U.K. and the U.S. are very different countries, and it really shows in the television.
Robert Carlyle
#25. A lot of the characters I play have problems, they are marginalised, they have serious psychological problems, problems with relationships, with childhood. These are big subjects, big subjects. You can't balk at work like that. As an actor, that's as good as it gets.
Robert Carlyle
#26. I declare I would rather be a kitten and cry, 'Mew!' than live as I see many of my female acquaintances do, tearing each other's characters to pieces, and wearing out their lives in vanity and vexation of spirit.
Jane Welsh Carlyle
#28. 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
#29. No nobler feeling than this, of admiration for one higher than himself, dwells in the breast of man. It is to this hour, and at all hours, the vivifying influence in man's life.
Thomas Carlyle
#30. Does not a man physically tremble under the mere look of a wild beast or fellow-man that is stronger than himself? Does not a woman redden all over when she feels her lover's eyes on her? How then should one doubt the mysterious power of one individual over another?
Jane Welsh Carlyle
#31. The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.
Thomas Carlyle
#33. In every man's writings, the character of the writer must lie recorded.
Thomas Carlyle
#34. I have a reputation for being an improvisational actor, which is true, but I also know what I'm doing so that if the improvisational strand doesn't work I can go back to what I know's already there.
Robert Carlyle
#35. All work of man is as the swimmer's: a vast ocean threatens to devour him; if he front it not bravely, it will keep its word.
Thomas Carlyle
#36. Pin thy faith to no man's sleeve. Hast thou not two eyes of thy own?
Thomas Carlyle
#37. Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.
Thomas Carlyle
#38. A greater number of God's creatures believe in Mahomet's word at this hour than in any other word whatever. Are we to suppose that it was a miserable piece of spiritual legerdemain, this which so many creatures of the almighty have lived by and died by? ...
Thomas Carlyle
#39. Each performance and each film is what it is. It's right and belongs within that moment. You look at it and try to make it fit your particular part of your character and your particular film.
Robert Carlyle
#40. Money will buy money's worth; but the thing men call fame, what is it?
Thomas Carlyle
#42. Goethe's devil is a cultivated personage and acquainted with the modern sciences; sneers at witchcraft and the black art even while employing them, and doubts most things, nay, half disbelieves even his own existence.
Thomas Carlyle
#43. 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.
Jane Welsh Carlyle
#44. 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
#45. The more people know about an actor the less convincing they become. A bit of mystery's a good thing.
Robert Carlyle
#46. There is endless merit in a man's knowing when to have done.
Thomas Carlyle
#47. If I say that Shakespeare is the greatest of intellects, I have said all concerning him. But there is more in Shakespeare's intellect than we have yet seen. It is what I call an unconscious intellect; there is more virtue in it that he himself is aware of.
Thomas Carlyle
#48. Woe to him, ... who has no court of appeal against the world's judgment.
Thomas Carlyle
#49. When you lose the shootout, you feel like you lost the hockey game, ... But we didn't lose the hockey game. We lost a point and they gained a point. That's the reality of it.
Randy Carlyle
#50. In troubled times the last thing you want to do is to stick your money into a film. It's such a gamble.
Robert Carlyle
#51. What the light of your mind, which is the direct inspiration of the Almighty, pronounces incredible, that, in God's name, leave uncredited. At your peril do not try believing that!
Thomas Carlyle
#52. 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
#53. Is man's civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever?
Thomas Carlyle
#54. I don't think you can really expect to win a hockey game giving up three power-play goals. In reality, you cant give up those and that's the difference in the hockey game.
Randy Carlyle
#55. But what are friends? What is a husband, even, compared with one's Mother? Of her love, one is always so sure! It is the only love that nothing - not even misconduct on our part - can take away from us.
Jane Welsh Carlyle
#56. It is well said, in every sense, that a man's religion is the chief fact with regard to him.
Thomas Carlyle
#57. In the true Literary Man there is thus ever, acknowledged or not by the world, a sacredness: he is the light of the world; the world's Priest;
guiding it, like a sacred Pillar of Fire, in its dark pilgrimage through the waste of Time.
Thomas Carlyle
#58. The healthy know not of their health, but only the sick: this is the physician's aphorism, and applicable in a far wider sense than he gives it.
Thomas Carlyle
#59. If there's anything you want to ask your parents, ask them before they go, because once they go, they're gone.
Robert Carlyle
#60. If I have an antipathy for any class of people, it is for fine ladies. I almost match my Husband's detestation of partridge-shooting gentlemen.
Jane Welsh Carlyle
#61. My dad was rubbish at all other aspects of his financial life, but he's pretty good at paying the rent.
Robert Carlyle
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
Thomas Carlyle
#65. Acting is probably the greatest therapy in the world. You can get a lot stuff out of you on the set so you don't have to take it home with you at night. It's the stuff between the lines, the empty space between those lines which is interesting.
Robert Carlyle
#66. 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
#67. The goal of yesterday will be our starting-point to-morrow.
Thomas Carlyle
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. I do tend to divide my childhood into darkness and light, and the first seven years were certainly the darkness.
Robert Carlyle
#71. 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
#72. 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
#74. 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
#76. Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
Thomas Carlyle
#77. A lot of Scots have settled in Canada over the years and it's a very easy place for Scots - they understand us, we understand them.
Robert Carlyle
#78. A lot of my work is with children and there's a reason for that, because they really level you.
Robert Carlyle
#79. I never rehearse. Never! I think it's a waste of time.
Robert Carlyle
#80. Armed Soldier, terrible as Death, relentless as Doom; doing God's judgement on the Enemies of God. It is a phenomenon not of joyful nature; no, but of awful, to be looked at with pious terror and awe.
Thomas Carlyle
#81. It's a man's sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
Thomas Carlyle
#82. Vancouver's a very child friendly city, there's ... no doubt about that.
Robert Carlyle
#83. In private life I never knew anyone interfere with other people's disputes but he heartily repented of it.
Thomas Carlyle
#84. Of course, I love chats with various actors about the process and how they do it. To me, if it's not on the camera, if it's not there, it's not worth it. It really just isn't worth it.
Robert Carlyle
#85. People go to the movies to watch a film and all they're thinking about is the actress's cellulite they saw in a magazine.
Robert Carlyle
#86. Hardened round us, encasing wholly every notion we form is a wrapping of traditions, hearsay's, and mere words.
Thomas Carlyle
#87. 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
#88. Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all.
Thomas Carlyle
#89. Happy season of childhood! Kind Nature, that art to all a bountiful mother; that visitest the poor man's hut With auroral radiance; and for thy nursling hast provided a soft swathing of love and infinite hope wherein he waxes and slumbers, danced round by sweetest dreams!
Thomas Carlyle
#90. People in Scotland appreciate homegrown talent, but it's getting harder and harder to get films made in Britain.
Robert Carlyle
#91. A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.
Thomas Carlyle
#92. Man's earthly interests,'are all hooked and buttoned together, and held up, by Clothes.
Thomas Carlyle
#93. You may take my purse; but I cannot have my moral Self annihilated. The purse is any Highwayman's who might meet me with a loaded pistol: but the Self is mine and God my Maker's; it is not yours; and I will resist you to the death, and revolt against you ...
Thomas Carlyle
#94. I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.
Thomas Carlyle
#95. What, in the devil's name, is the use of respectability, with never so many gigs and silver spoons, if thou inwardly art the pitifulness of all men?
Thomas Carlyle
#96. Blessed be the God's voice; for it is true, and falsehoods have to cease before it!
Thomas Carlyle
#97. Men's hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another and all against evil only.
Thomas Carlyle
#98. I used to be a rabid reader, but now it's scripts or nothing - network television is quite relentless, and you can't drop the ball.
Robert Carlyle
#99. Laws, written, if not on stone tables, yet on the azure of infinitude, in the inner heart of God's creation, certain as life, certain as death, are there, and thou shalt not disobey them.
Thomas Carlyle
#100. To know, to get into the truth of anything, is ever a mystic art, of which the best logic's can but babble on the surface.
Thomas Carlyle
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