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Jane Welsh Carlyle
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“I am not at all the sort of person you and I took me for.”
Jane Welsh Carlyle (1801–1866) first seen 1822 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Thomas Carlyle (7 May 1822).
“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 (1801–1866) first seen 1824 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Thomas Carlyle (20 May 1824]).
“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 (1801–1866) first seen 1825 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Thomas Carlyle (January 1825).
“In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my better half, I still find myself a self-subsisting, and, alas! self-seeking me.”
Jane Welsh Carlyle (1801–1866) first seen 1835 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to John Sterling (15 June 1835).
“Oh Lord! If you but knew what a brimstone of a creature I am behind all this beautiful amiability!”
Jane Welsh Carlyle (1801–1866) first seen 1836 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Eliza Stodart (29 February 1836).
“Instead of boiling up individuals into the species, I would draw a chalk circle round every individuality, and preach to it to keep within that, and preserve and cultivate its identity.”
Jane Welsh Carlyle (1801–1866) first seen 1845 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to John Sterling (5 August 1845).
“I can see that the Lady has a genius for ruling, whilst I have a genius for not being ruled.”
Jane Welsh Carlyle (1801–1866) first seen 1845 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Thomas Carlyle (28 September 1845).
“The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.”
Jane Welsh Carlyle (1801–1866) first seen 1849 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Journal entry (August 1849).
“When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour.”
Jane Welsh Carlyle (1801–1866) first seen 1855 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Journal entry (25 November 1855).
“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 (1801–1866) first seen 1858 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Journal entry (16 July 1858).
“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 (1801–1866) first seen 1859 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Miss Barnes (24 August 1859).