Jane Welsh Carlyle Quotes

The glittering baits of titles and honours are only for children and fools.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

• Children

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• How do people move on after they've lost the love of their life? It's a really interesting thing to look at. It happens to people every day: you see people... even in the worst, most war-torn places, people get up and continue with their lives. And it's a fascinating thing about human nature. That ability to just continue on.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • People
  • Life
  • Love

• Wearing nice lingerie makes me feel really glamorous. I love to splurge on that.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Feel
  • Glamorous
  • Lingerie

• There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.

  

  Magnus Magnusson
  • Better
  • Walks
  • Exercises

• For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Mother
  • Feeling
  • Stories

• 'Hannity' had a a guy on that said, 'I fathered 20 kids by 14 mothers.' That is s cultural issue which has demeaned our society and has caused our society dearly in terms of imprisonment. Who's going to be the fathers to those children? Who's going to pay child support?

  

  Foster Friess
  • Children
  • Kids
  • Guy

• My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.

  

  Faith Evans
  • Music
  • School
  • Pretty

• Mum and Dad were both happy for me to do what I wanted.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Happy
  • Me
  • Dad

• I always dreamed of going to the Olympics. To be going to the Games in your own country is another thing; to do it as a potential medallist is another thing again.

  

  Hannah Mills
  • Country
  • Always
  • Potential

• I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • World
  • Art
  • Worry

• Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.

  

  M. F. K. Fisher
  • Fun
  • Always
  • Reassuring

• I'm an entrepreneur. I'm married to an entrepreneur. So I haven't just sipped the entrepreneurship cool-aid, I bleed this stuff.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Cool
  • Married
  • Entrepreneur

• Jersey gets a bad rap. Most people make an assessment of this state on the ride from Newark Airport into Manhattan.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • People
  • Bad
  • Rap

• I consciously decided not to be a 'London' actor. Those gangster movies made a lot of East End actors think they were movie stars. And I was very aware that they were going to go out of fashion.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Movie
  • Fashion
  • End

• I like that Barack got that job.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Job
  • Like
  • Got

• Bullies always have another target.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Always
  • Another
  • Target

• There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you're involved in, whether it's a fantasy game, the Wild West, secret agents or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things.

  

  Gary Gygax
  • Character
  • Experience
  • Game

• Most fears are basic: fear of the dark, fear of going down in the basement, fear of weird sounds, fear that somebody is waiting for you in your closet. Those kinds of things stay with you no matter what age.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Age
  • Fear
  • Dark

• That's one of the great things about comedy: we can - and should - say the things that other people aren't supposed to say. If we didn't do that, if we didn't push against those limits, we'd just be standing around onstage and yelling.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • People
  • Great
  • Comedy

• The Royal Festival Hall in London is nice; people hang out there. I think this inviting, non-exclusive character is very important.

  

  Esa-Pekka Salonen
  • People
  • Important
  • Character

• I asked, "What do you think the most important advancement was for women in recent years?" And the majority, the item that polled the most, was Hillary Clinton's run for President. Can you believe that? Women saw that as a breakthrough in something very, very important. She didn't win. And I think another thing that her race did was it showed sexism in our society.

  

  Carolyn Maloney
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Running

• I went to school with Steven Wright, who was the shyest guy I knew, and one day someone suddenly told me that he was in a club doing standup comedy. I went down to his club and he was great. Another friend of mine, who was pretty much a thief by trade, was hosting the show. So I thought, 'If these guys can do it, then so can I.'

  

  Denis Leary
  • Great
  • School
  • Guy

• The glittering baits of titles and honours are only for children and fools.

  

  Jane Welsh Carlyle
  • Children