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To be honest I don't think I was any great shakes as a theatre actor because everything I was doing was really small in size - intimate.
— Robert Carlyle
That monstrous tuberosity of civilised life, the capital of England.
— Thomas Carlyle
The latest gospel in this world is, know thy work and do it.
— Thomas Carlyle
The only thing that makes one place more attractive to me than another is the quantity of heart I find in it.
— Jane Welsh Carlyle
Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with
— Thomas Carlyle
Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.
— Thomas Carlyle
Thou fool! Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom; that idle crag thou sittest on is six thousand years of age.
— Thomas Carlyle
Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.
— Thomas Carlyle
Well at ease are the Sleepers for whom Existence is a shallow Dream.
— Thomas Carlyle
When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour.
— Jane Welsh Carlyle
One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.
— Thomas Carlyle
When I look back at my past and the way I grew up, I grew up on communes. That was meant to be.
— Robert Carlyle
Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
— Thomas Carlyle
I'd love to do a Columbo-type detective character in a series.
— Robert Carlyle
Whose school-hours are all the days and nights of our existence.
— Thomas Carlyle
Caution is the lower story of prudence.
— Thomas Carlyle
To the vulgar eye, few things are wonderful that are not distant
— Thomas Carlyle
France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams.
— Thomas Carlyle
A fair day's wage for a fair day's work: it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing. It is the everlasting right of man.
— Thomas Carlyle
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
— Thomas Carlyle
Either I am just what God intended me for, or God cannot 'carry out' His intentions, it would seem.
— Jane Welsh Carlyle
God Almighty never created a man half as wise as he looks.
— Thomas Carlyle
Pin your faith to no ones sleeves, haven't you two eyes of your own.
— Thomas Carlyle
Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk.
— Thomas Carlyle
A judicious man uses statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted upon him.
— Thomas Carlyle
Wealth of a man is the number of things which he loves and blesses which he is loved and blessed by.
— Thomas Carlyle
There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
— Thomas Carlyle
The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.
— Thomas Carlyle
No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.
— Thomas Carlyle
A collection of books is the best of all universities.
— Thomas Carlyle
I call the book of Job, apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with the pen.
— Thomas Carlyle
One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.
— Thomas Carlyle
Laws themselves, political Constitutions, are not our Life; but only the house wherein our Life is led.
— Thomas Carlyle
If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.
— Thomas Carlyle
Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books.
— Thomas Carlyle
At worst, is not this an unjust world, full of nothing but beasts of prey, four-footed or two-footed?
— Thomas Carlyle
Great souls are always loyally submissive, reverent to what is over them: only small mean souls are otherwise.
— Thomas Carlyle
At the bottom there is no perfect history; there is none such conceivable. All past centuries have rotted down, and gone confusedly dumb and quiet.
— Thomas Carlyle
Eyes bright, with many tears, behind them.
— Thomas Carlyle
Fire is the best of servants, but what a master!
— Thomas Carlyle
Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.
— Thomas Carlyle
A Fourth Estate, of Able Editors, springs up.
— Thomas Carlyle
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world.
— Thomas Carlyle
Before philosophy can teach by Experience, the Philosophy has to be in readiness, the Experience must be gathered and intelligibly recorded.
— Thomas Carlyle
The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity.
— Thomas Carlyle
Skepticism ... is not intellectual only it is moral also, a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul.
— Thomas Carlyle
No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.
— Thomas Carlyle
. . . everywhere a good and a bad book
— Thomas Carlyle
I owe my father everything.
— Robert Carlyle
Use the noble gifts which God has given you!
— Jane Welsh Carlyle
O Time! Time! how it brings forth and devours! And the roaring flood of existence rushes on forever similar, forever changing!
— Thomas Carlyle
If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount to that.
— Thomas Carlyle
'On earth the living have much to bear;' the difference is chiefly in the manner of bearing, and my manner of bearing is far from being the best.
— Jane Welsh Carlyle
The mystery of a person, indeed, is ever divine to him that has a sense for the godlike.
— Thomas Carlyle
The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.
— Thomas Carlyle
We looked out on Life, with its strange scaffolding,
— Thomas Carlyle
In this life, all is Evanescent. Live for the now
— Carlyle Labuschagne
Earnestness alone makes life eternity.
— Thomas Carlyle
True authority is not overcome by greater numbers.
— Frank Carlyle
I am not at all the sort of person you and I took me for.
— Jane Welsh Carlyle
Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows.
— Thomas Carlyle
Pain was not given thee merely to be miserable under; learn from it, turn it to account.
— Thomas Carlyle
Laughter means sympathy.
— Thomas Carlyle
No country can find eternal peace and comfort where the vote of Judas Iscariot is as good as the vote of the Saviour of mankind.
— Thomas Carlyle
Music ... a kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads to the edge of the Infinite.
— Thomas Carlyle
The actual well seen is ideal.
— Thomas Carlyle
They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death are the allurements that act on the heart of man.
— Thomas Carlyle
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
— Thomas Carlyle
Is man's civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever?
— Thomas Carlyle
A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
— Thomas Carlyle
As there is no danger of our becoming, any of us, Mahometans (i.e. Muslim), I mean to say all the good of him I justly can ...
— Thomas Carlyle
Skepticism means, not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt.
— Thomas Carlyle
Genuine Work alone, what thou workest faithfully, that is eternal, as the Almighty Founder and World-Builder himself.
— Thomas Carlyle
The glittering baits of titles and honours are only for children and fools.
— Jane Welsh Carlyle
A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
— Thomas Carlyle
No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy.
— Thomas Carlyle
The scandalous bronze-lacquer age of hungry animalisms, spiritual impotences, and mendacities, will have to run its course, till the pit follow it.
— Thomas Carlyle
Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy!
— Thomas Carlyle
Faith is loyalty to some inspired teacher, some spiritual hero.
— Thomas Carlyle
And you hate me. "For something I didn't do and something you didn't see. Hate
— Carlyle Toussaint
Speech that leads not to action, still more that hinders it, is a nuisance on the earth.
— Thomas Carlyle
Men worship the shows of great men; the most disbelieve that there is any reality of great men to worship.
— Thomas Carlyle
The whole universe is but a huge Symbol of god".
— Thomas Carlyle
What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.
— Thomas Carlyle