Top 20 Jane Welsh Carlyle Quotes (2024 Update)

Jane Welsh Carlyle Quote: “In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my better half, I still find myself a self-subsisting and alas! self-seeking me.”

1. “In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my better half, I still find myself a self-subsisting and alas! self-seeking me.”

— Jane Welsh Carlyle

Jane Welsh Carlyle Quote: “Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.”

2. “Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.”

— Jane Welsh Carlyle

Jane Welsh Carlyle Quote: “Homeopathy – an invention of the Father of Lies! I have tried it and found it wanting. I would swallow their whole doles medicine chest for sixpence, and be sure of finding myself neither better nor worse for it.”

3. “Homeopathy – an invention of the Father of Lies! I have tried it and found it wanting. I would swallow their whole doles medicine chest for sixpence, and be sure of finding myself neither better nor worse for it.”

— Jane Welsh Carlyle

Jane Welsh Carlyle Quote: “When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour.”

4. “When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour.”

— Jane Welsh Carlyle

Jane Welsh Carlyle Quote: “It is sad and wrong to be so dependent for the life of my life on any human being as I am on you; but I cannot by any force of logic cure myself at this date, when it has become second nature.”

5. “It is sad and wrong to be so dependent for the life of my life on any human being as I am on you; but I cannot by any force of logic cure myself at this date, when it has become second nature.”

— Jane Welsh Carlyle

Jane Welsh Carlyle Quote: “Blessed be the inventor of photography! I set him above even the inventor of chloroform! It has given more positive pleasure to po or suffering humanity than anything else that has “cast up” in my time or is like to – this art by which even the “poor” can possess themselves of tolerable likenesses of their absent dear ones. And mustn’t it be acting favourably on the morality of the country?”

6. “Blessed be the inventor of photography! I set him above even the inventor of chloroform! It has given more positive pleasure to po or suffering humanity than anything else that has “cast up” in my time or is like to – this art by which even the “poor” can possess themselves of tolerable likenesses of their absent dear ones. And mustn’t it be acting favourably on the morality of the country?”

— Jane Welsh Carlyle

Jane Welsh Carlyle Quote: “I am not at all the sort of person you and I took me for.”

7. “I am not at all the sort of person you and I took me for.”

— Jane Welsh Carlyle

Jane Welsh Carlyle Quote: “I rely on the promise, God is kind to women, fools, and drunk people.”

8. “I rely on the promise, God is kind to women, fools, and drunk people.”

— Jane Welsh Carlyle

Jane Welsh Carlyle Quote: “The only thing that makes one place more attractive to me than another is the quantity of heart I find in it.”

9. “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

Jane Welsh Carlyle Quote: “Teaching, I find, is not the most amusing thing on earth; in fact, with a stupid lump for a Pupil, it is about the most irksome.”

10. “Teaching, I find, is not the most amusing thing on earth; in fact, with a stupid lump for a Pupil, it is about the most irksome.”

— Jane Welsh Carlyle

Jane Welsh Carlyle Quote: “Young children are such nasty little beasts!”

11. “Young children are such nasty little beasts!”

— Jane Welsh Carlyle

Jane Welsh Carlyle Quote: “Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement.”

12. “Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement.”

— Jane Welsh Carlyle

Jane Welsh Carlyle Quote: “Not a hundredth part of the thoughts in my head have ever been or ever will be spoken or written – as long as I keep my senses, at least.”

13. “Not a hundredth part of the thoughts in my head have ever been or ever will be spoken or written – as long as I keep my senses, at least.”

— Jane Welsh Carlyle

Jane Welsh Carlyle Quote: “A positive engagement to marry a certain person at a certain time, at all haps and hazards, I have always considered the most ridiculous thing on earth.”

14. “A positive engagement to marry a certain person at a certain time, at all haps and hazards, I have always considered the most ridiculous thing on earth.”

— Jane Welsh Carlyle

Jane Welsh Carlyle Quote: “If they had said that the sun or the moon had gone out of the heavens, it could not have struck me with the idea of a more awful and dreary blank in creation than the words: Byron is dead!”

15. “If they had said that the sun or the moon had gone out of the heavens, it could not have struck me with the idea of a more awful and dreary blank in creation than the words: Byron is dead!”

— Jane Welsh Carlyle

Jane Welsh Carlyle Quote: “The triumphal-procession-air which, in our manners and customs, is given to marriage at the outset – that singing of Te Deum before the battle has begun.”

16. “The triumphal-procession-air which, in our manners and customs, is given to marriage at the outset – that singing of Te Deum before the battle has begun.”

— Jane Welsh Carlyle

Jane Welsh Carlyle Quote: “The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.”

17. “The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.”

— Jane Welsh Carlyle

Jane Welsh Carlyle Quote: “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.”

18. “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

Jane Welsh Carlyle Quote: “A fashionable wife! Oh! Never will I be anything so heartless! I have pictured for myself a far higher destiny than this. – Will it ever be more than a picture?”

19. “A fashionable wife! Oh! Never will I be anything so heartless! I have pictured for myself a far higher destiny than this. – Will it ever be more than a picture?”

— Jane Welsh Carlyle

Jane Welsh Carlyle Quote: “The glittering baits of titles and honours are only for children and fools.”

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

— Jane Welsh Carlyle

Jane Welsh Carlyle Quote: “How many precious things do we not already possess which others have not – have hardly an idea of! Let us enjoy these, then, and bless God that we are permitted to enjoy them, rather than importune His goodness with vain longings for more.”

21. “How many precious things do we not already possess which others have not – have hardly an idea of! Let us enjoy these, then, and bless God that we are permitted to enjoy them, rather than importune His goodness with vain longings for more.”

— Jane Welsh Carlyle

Jane Welsh Carlyle Quote: “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.”

22. “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

Jane Welsh Carlyle Quote: “Instead of boiling up individuals into the species, I would draw a chalk circle round every individuality, and preach to it to keep within that, and preserve and cultivate its identity.”

23. “Instead of boiling up individuals into the species, I would draw a chalk circle round every individuality, and preach to it to keep within that, and preserve and cultivate its identity.”

— Jane Welsh Carlyle

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