Carlyle

Famous quotes containing the word carlyle:

“France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)

“Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his elect!”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)

“If Carlyle does not take two steps in philosophy, are there any who take three?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)