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Men's hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another and all against evil only.
— Thomas Carlyle
People go to the movies to watch a film and all they're thinking about is the actress's cellulite they saw in a magazine.
— Robert Carlyle
The latest gospel in this world is, know thy work and do it.
— Thomas Carlyle
Of all God's creatures, Man alone is poor.
— Thomas Carlyle
To know, to get into the truth of anything, is ever a mystic art, of which the best logic's can but babble on the surface.
— 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
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
My wife was a make-up artist, and she's a total product junkie. Our bathroom is packed full of lotions and potions so I end up trying them out.
— Robert Carlyle
In private life I never knew anyone interfere with other people's disputes but he heartily repented of it.
— 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
Hardened round us, encasing wholly every notion we form is a wrapping of traditions, hearsay's, and mere words.
— Thomas Carlyle
To the vulgar eye, few things are wonderful that are not distant
— Thomas Carlyle
Pin thy faith to no man's sleeve. Hast thou not two eyes of thy own?
— 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
Pin your faith to no ones sleeves, haven't you two eyes of your own.
— Thomas Carlyle
All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.
— 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
The healthy know not of their health, but only the sick: this is the physician's aphorism, and applicable in a far wider sense than he gives it.
— Thomas Carlyle
The true epic of our times is not "Arm's and the Man," but "Tools and the Man"an infinitely wider kind of epic. — Thomas Carlyle
If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.
— Thomas Carlyle
A fair day's wages for a fair day's work.
— 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
How, without clothes, could we possess the master organ, soul's seat and true pineal gland of the body socialI mean a purse? — Thomas Carlyle
A man's perfection is his work.
— 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
A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.
— 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
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
The more people know about an actor the less convincing they become. A bit of mystery's a good thing.
— Robert Carlyle
I never rehearse. Never! I think it's a waste of time.
— Robert Carlyle
People who are so dreadfully "devoted" to their wives are so apt, from mere habit, to get devoted to other people's wives as well.
— Jane Welsh Carlyle
Blessed be the God's voice; for it is true, and falsehoods have to cease before it!
— Thomas Carlyle
It is well said, in every sense, that a man's religion is the chief fact with regard to him.
— Thomas Carlyle
It's a man's sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
— Thomas Carlyle
If there's anything you want to ask your parents, ask them before they go, because once they go, they're gone.
— Robert Carlyle
The longer one lives in this hard world motherless, the more a mother's loss makes itself felt ...
— Jane Welsh Carlyle
In the late '70s, maybe just before I started, there was still an attitude that if you did film you didn't do TV and vice versa, but that's gone now.
— Robert Carlyle
A noble book! all men's book!
— Thomas Carlyle
Freedom is the one purport, wisely aimed at, or unwisely, of all man's struggles, toilings and sufferings, in this earth.
— Thomas Carlyle
Man's earthly interests,'are all hooked and buttoned together, and held up, by Clothes.
— Thomas Carlyle
The U.K. and the U.S. are very different countries, and it really shows in the television.
— Robert Carlyle
A lot of my work is with children and there's a reason for that, because they really level you.
— Robert Carlyle
People in Scotland appreciate homegrown talent, but it's getting harder and harder to get films made in Britain.
— Robert Carlyle
If I have an antipathy for any class of people, it is for fine ladies. I almost match my Husband's detestation of partridge-shooting gentlemen.
— Jane Welsh Carlyle
It's much more fun to be ugly.
— Robert Carlyle
All work of man is as the swimmer's: a vast ocean threatens to devour him; if he front it not bravely, it will keep its word.
— Thomas Carlyle
Eyes bright, with many tears, behind them.
— Thomas Carlyle
In troubled times the last thing you want to do is to stick your money into a film. It's such a gamble.
— Robert 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
What, in the devil's name, is the use of respectability, with never so many gigs and silver spoons, if thou inwardly art the pitifulness of all men?
— Thomas Carlyle
The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.
— Thomas Carlyle
A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.
— Thomas Carlyle
There is endless merit in a man's knowing when to have done.
— Thomas Carlyle
My dad was rubbish at all other aspects of his financial life, but he's pretty good at paying the rent.
— Robert Carlyle
I used to be a rabid reader, but now it's scripts or nothing - network television is quite relentless, and you can't drop the ball.
— Robert Carlyle
Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all.
— Thomas Carlyle
A lot of Scots have settled in Canada over the years and it's a very easy place for Scots - they understand us, we understand them.
— Robert Carlyle
The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.
— Thomas Carlyle
Skepticism means, not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt.
— Thomas Carlyle
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
