Ridicule is the language of the devil

Quote by Thomas Carlyle

Topics: Ridicule Quotes

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary...

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary...

What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with...

What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with...

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

No violent extreme endures.

No violent extreme endures.

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing...

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing...

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A...

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A...

Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited...

Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited...

Biography is the only true history

Biography is the only true history

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.

Every noble work is at first impossible.

Every noble work is at first impossible.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow...

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow...

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and...

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and...

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man...

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man...

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished...

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished...