It is odd what notions men seem to have of the scantiness of a woman’s resources. They do not find it anything out of nature that they should be able to exist by themselves; but a woman must always be borne about on somebody’s shoulders, and dandled or chirped to, or it is supposed she will fall into the blackest melancholy! Jane Welsh Carlyle Read Quote
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. Jane Welsh Carlyle Read Quote
There is nothing like a good bit of pain for taking the conceit out of one. Jane Welsh Carlyle Read Quote
There is never much to be feared for anyone that is born with sense and truth in him, whatever else he may have or want. Jane Welsh Carlyle Read Quote
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 Read Quote
How many precious things do we not already possess which others have not – have hardly an idea of! Let us enjoy these, then, and bless God that we are permitted to enjoy them, rather than importune His goodness with vain longings for more. Jane Welsh Carlyle Read Quote
Indeed, I should be very stupid or very thankless if I did not congratulate myself every hour of the day on the lot which it has pleased Providence to assign me. My Husband is so kind! So, in all respects, after my own heart! Jane Welsh Carlyle Read Quote
I wonder that among all the evils deprecated in the Liturgy, no one thought of inserting flitting. Is there any worse thing? Oh no, no! Jane Welsh Carlyle Read Quote
I have lived so long among people who do not understand me, been so long accustomed to refrain and disguise myself for fear of being laughed at, that I have grown as difficult to come at as a snail in a shell; and what is worse, I cannot come out of my shell when I wish it. Jane Welsh Carlyle Read Quote
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 Read Quote
