Thomas Carlyle Quotes

That monstrous tuberosity of civilised life, the capital of England.

Fancy that thou deservest to be hanged ... thou wilt feel it happiness to be only shot: fancy that thou deservest to be hanged in a hair halter, it will be a luxury to die in hemp.

Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation,—till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

The Persians are called the French of the East; we will call the Arabs Oriental Italians. A gifted noble people; a people of wild strong feelings, and of iron restraint over these: the characteristic of noblemindedness, of genius.

Genius (which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all).

Little other than a redtape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence.

Writing is a dreadful Labour, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

A frightful dialect for the stupid, the pedant and dullard sort.