I am not at all the sort of person you and I took me for. Jane Welsh Carlyle More Quotes by Jane Welsh Carlyle More Quotes From Jane Welsh Carlyle The triumphal-procession-air which, in our manners and customs, is given to marriage at the outset - that singing of Te Deum before the battle has begun. Jane Welsh Carlyle singingbattleair A positive engagement to marry a certain person at a certain time, at all haps and hazards, I have always considered the most ridiculous thing on earth. Jane Welsh Carlyle hazardsengagementearth It is sad and wrong to be so dependent for the life of my life on any human being as I am on you; but I cannot by any force of logic cure myself at this date, when it has become second nature. Jane Welsh Carlyle logicnaturelife Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother. Jane Welsh Carlyle mommothertime Not a hundredth part of the thoughts in my head have ever been or ever will be spoken or written — as long as I keep my senses, at least. Jane Welsh Carlyle senseswrittenlong When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour. Jane Welsh Carlyle favourinjusticeaccepting If they had said that the sun or the moon had gone out of the heavens, it could not have struck me with the idea of a more awful and dreary blank in creation than the words: Byron is dead! Jane Welsh Carlyle moonheavenideas Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. Jane Welsh Carlyle bereavementtryingdeath Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it. Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother. Jane Welsh Carlyle feelgreatmothertime 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 womaneyesmanpower 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 myselfmefearpeople I do think there is much truth in the Young German idea that marriage is a shockingly immoral institution, as well as what we have long known it for - an extremely disagreeable one. Jane Welsh Carlyle thinkmarriagetruthlong One of the main uses of a home is to stay in it, when one is too weak and spiritless for conforming, without effort, to the ways of other houses. Jane Welsh Carlyle staywithoutefforthome It is much to be wished that one had a post that knew what it was doing again; and lawmakers that knew what they were doing. If I were the Government, I should feel rather ashamed of making regulations one month and unmaking them the next. Jane Welsh Carlyle doingfeelashamedgovernment Either I am just what God intended me for, or God cannot 'carry out' His intentions, it would seem. Jane Welsh Carlyle i-amjustmegod One feels as if it could never, never be less. And yet all griefs, when there is no bitterness in them, are soothed down by time. Jane Welsh Carlyle downneverbitternesstime The habits of study in which I have been brought up have done much to support me. I never allow myself to be one moment unoccupied. Jane Welsh Carlyle myselfmemomentsupport Who knows but I shall grow reasonable at last, descend from my ideal heaven to the real earth, marry, and - Oh Plato! - make a pudding? Jane Welsh Carlyle growrealearthheaven There is nothing like a good bit of pain for taking the conceit out of one. Jane Welsh Carlyle nothinggoodlikepain 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 i-ammebeautifulmen
