Charles Dudley Warner Quotes

United States, Essayist
September 12, 1829 – October, 20, 1900.

Charles Dudley Warner (September 12, 1829 – October 20, 1900) was an American essayist, novelist, and friend of Mark Twain, with whom he co-authored the novel The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today.

Also known as Novelist

Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.

Charles Dudley Warner
- Long
- Dirty
The toad, without which no garden would be complete.

Charles Dudley Warner
- Garden

The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.

Charles Dudley Warner
- City
Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire.

Charles Dudley Warner
- People
- Fire
- Sun
It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.

Charles Dudley Warner
- Ignorance
Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.

Charles Dudley Warner
- Time
- World
- Family