Carlyle

Famous quotes containing the word carlyle:

“The three great elements of modern civilization, gunpowder, printing, and the Protestant religion.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)

“No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)

“What are your historical Facts; still more your biographical? Wilt thou know a Man ... by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts?”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)