Charles Dudley Warner Quotes
An American essayist and novelist.
(1829 – 1900)
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A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.
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Barring some piece of luck I have seen but few men get rich rapidly except by means that would make them writhe to have known in public.
[Wealth]
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Broad acres are a patent of nobility; and no man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is 4000 miles deep; and that is a very handsome property.
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Did a woman ever love who would not give all the years of tasteless serenity for one year, for one month, for one day of uncalculating delirium of love poured out upon the man who returned it.
[Love]
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Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.
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Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire.
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Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.
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How many wars have been caused by fits of indigestion, and how many more dynasties have been upset by the love of woman than by the hate of man.
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I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.
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It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.
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It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
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It is only fools who keep straining at high C all their lives.
[Self Acceptance]
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Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.
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Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.
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No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property.
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No one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
[Happiness]
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One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one.
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People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.
[Attempt]
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Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.
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Politics makes strange bedfellows.
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