Charles Kingsley Quotes
Top 70 wise famous quotes and sayings by Charles Kingsley
Charles Kingsley Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Charles Kingsley on Wise Famous Quotes.
if you do not know, reader, what a Fisher Hobbs is, you know nothing about pigs, and deserve no bacon for breakfast.
It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.
For to be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ and first upgrowth of all virtue.
Cheerfulness is full of significance: it suggests good health, a clear conscience, and a soul at peace with all human nature.
[The] great fairy Science, who is likely to be queen of all the fairies for many a year to come, can only do you good, and never do you harm ...
O Mary, go and call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, Across the sands o' Dee!
Oh England is a pleasant place for them that's rich and high,
But England is a cruel place for such poor folks as I
But England is a cruel place for such poor folks as I
The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see.
And what was the song which she sang? Ah, my little man, I am too old to sing that song, and you too young to understand it.
A man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough gentleman than if he had been brought up in all the drawing-rooms in London.
It is not darkness you are going to, for God is Light. It is not lonely, for Christ is with you. It is not unknown country, for Christ is there.
Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.
If you wish to be like a little child, study what a little child could understand - nature; and do what a little child could do - love.
I believe not only in "special providences," but in the whole universe as one infinite complexity of "special providences.
This is the feeling that gives a man true courage-the feeling that he has a work to do at all costs; the sense of duty.
There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.
Music has been called the speech of the angels; I will go farther and call it the speech of God Himself.
The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again.
And now I'm old and going
I'm sure I can't tell where;
One comfort is, this world's so hard, I can't be worse off there
I'm sure I can't tell where;
One comfort is, this world's so hard, I can't be worse off there
How long would it take a school-inspector of average activity to tumble head over heels from London toYork?
Wherever is love and loyalty, great purposes and lofty souls, even though in a hovel or a mine, there is fairyland.