Quotes about Thomas Carlyle

Necessity dispenseth with decorum.

#Thomas Carlyle

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is...

#Thomas Carlyle

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything...

#Thomas Carlyle

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.

#Thomas Carlyle

Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an...

#Thomas Carlyle

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this...

#Thomas Carlyle

Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

#Thomas Carlyle

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less...

#Thomas Carlyle

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

#Thomas Carlyle

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at...

#Thomas Carlyle

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

#Thomas Carlyle

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

#Thomas Carlyle