Carlyle

Famous quotes containing the word carlyle:

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

    There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
    —Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)

    History, a distillation of rumour.
    —Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)