Famous Thomas Carlyle Quotes

  • Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man, but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity. – Thomas Carlyle

    Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man, but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.– Thomas Carlyle

  • Such I hold to be the genuine use of Gunpowder: that it makes all men tall. – Thomas Carlyle

    Such I hold to be the genuine use of Gunpowder: that it makes all men tall.– Thomas Carlyle

  • Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you’ll be able to see further. – Thomas Carlyle

    Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you’ll be able to see further.– Thomas Carlyle

  • Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. – Thomas Carlyle

    Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better.– Thomas Carlyle

  • Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world. – Thomas Carlyle

    Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world.– Thomas Carlyle

  • All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of Books. They are the chosen possession of men. – Thomas Carlyle

    All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of Books. They are the chosen possession of men.– Thomas Carlyle

  • Well at ease are the Sleepers for whom Existence is a shallow Dream. – Thomas Carlyle

    Well at ease are the Sleepers for whom Existence is a shallow Dream.– Thomas Carlyle

  • The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature’s own heart – all else is wind in comparison. – Thomas Carlyle

    The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature’s own heart – all else is wind in comparison.– Thomas Carlyle

  • I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. – Thomas Carlyle

    I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.– Thomas Carlyle

  • A Dandy is a clothes-wearing Man, a Man whose trade, office and existence consists in the wearing of clothes. – Thomas Carlyle

    A Dandy is a clothes-wearing Man, a Man whose trade, office and existence consists in the wearing of clothes.– Thomas Carlyle