Charles Kingsley Quotes
"Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know."
- Charles Kingsley
(Related: Work, Strength, Being, Cheerfulness, Content, Diligence, Self, Temperance, Will)
"Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever."
- Charles Kingsley
(Related: Will)
"All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about."
- Charles Kingsley
"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."
- Charles Kingsley
(Related: Bible, Gentleman, London, May)
"A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults."
- Charles Kingsley
(Related: Trust, Soul, Friend, Faults, Man, Woman)
"Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us."
- Charles Kingsley
(Related: Evil, Pain)
"Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell."
- Charles Kingsley
(Related: Feelings)
"Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work."
- Charles Kingsley
(Related: Work, God, Tools, Will)
"It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means."
- Charles Kingsley
(Related: Friendship)
"Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth."
- Charles Kingsley
(Related: Age, Romance, Chivalry, Earth, Past, Spirit, Wrong)
"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."
- Charles Kingsley
(Related: Rain, World, Yesterday)
"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."
- Charles Kingsley
(Related: Man)
"There is a great deal of human nature in man."
- Charles Kingsley
(Related: Nature, Human nature)
"There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late."
- Charles Kingsley
(Related: Day, Kindness)
"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about."
- Charles Kingsley
(Related: Life, Act, Comfort, Luxury)
"We have used the Bible as if it were a mere special constable's handbook, an opium dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while they are overloaded."
- Charles Kingsley
(Related: Bible, Burden, Opium)
"Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day."
- Charles Kingsley
(Related: Blood, Day)
"He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them."
- Charles Kingsley
(Related: Men, Power)
"Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book."
- Charles Kingsley
(Related: Living, Man, Nothing)