Charles Kingsley Quotes (46 Quotes)



    O Mary, go and call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, Across the sands o' Dee.

    For men must work and women must weep. And the sooner it's over, the sooner to sleep.

    A man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough gentleman than if he had been brought up in all the drawing-rooms in London.

    It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.


    Oh green is the colour of faith and truth,
    And rose the colour of love and youth,
    And brown of the fruitful clay.

    As the rays come from the sun, and yet are not the sun, even so our love and pity, though they are not God, But merely a poor, weak image and reflection of him, yet from him alone they come.

    We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

    A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.

    When all the world is young, lad, And all the trees are green And every goose a swan, lad And every lass a queen Then hey for boot and horse, lad, And round the world away Young blood must have its course, lad, And every dog his day.

    We act as though comfort luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

    There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.

    Truth, for its own sake, had never been a virtue with the Roman clergy.

    The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again.


    We have used the Bible as if it were a mere special constable's handbook, an opium dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while they are overloaded.

    Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.


    I hope that my children, at least, if not I myself, will see the day when ignorance of the primary laws and facts of science will be looked upon as a defect only second to ignorance of the primary laws of religion and morality.

    Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell.


    Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.

    We shall be made truly wise if we be made content content, too, not only with what we can understand, but content with what we do not understandthe habit of mind which theologians call, and rightly, faith in God.

    One good man, one man who does not put on his religion once a week with his Sunday coat, but wears it for his working dress, and lets the thought of God grow into him, and through and through him, till everything he says and does becomes religious, that man is worth a thousand sermons he is a living Gospel he comes in the spirit and power of Elias he is the image of God. And men see his good works, and admire them in spite of themselves, and see that they are Godlike, and that God's grace is no dream, but that the Holy Spirit is still among men, and that all nobleness and manliness is His gift, His stamp, His picture and so they get a glimpse of God again in His saints and heroes, and glorify their Father who is in heaven.

    Possession means to sit astride the world Instead of having it astride of you.

    Music has been called the speech of the angels I will go farther and call it the speech of God Himself.


    He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.

    I once had a sweet little doll, dears, The prettiest doll in the world.

    The men whom I have seen succeed best in life always have been cheerful and hopeful men who went about their business with a smile on their faces and took the changes and chances of this mortal life like men facing rough and smooth alike as it came.

    See the land, her Easter keeping,Rises as her Maker rose.Seeds, so long in darkness sleeping,Burst at last from winter snows.Earth with heaven above rejoices...

    As thorough an Englishman as ever coveted his neighbor's goods.

    Do it this very moment Dont put it offdont wait Theres no use in doing a kindness If you do it a day too late.

    If you wish to be miserable, think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you, what people think of you and then to you nothing will be pure. You will spoil everything you touch you will make sin and misery for yourself out of everything God sends you you will be as wretched as you choose.


    There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

    I do not see why we should not be as just to an ant as to a human being.

    Mrs. Bedonebyasyoudid is coming. The loveliest fairy in the world and her name is Mrs. Doasyouwouldbedoneby.

    Do the work that's nearest, Though it's dull at whiles, Helping, when we meet them, Lame dogs over stiles.

    Every Winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down into a vale of grief, And fasts, and weeps, and shrouds herself in sables

    To be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ of the first upgrowth of all virtue.

    Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day.

    We ought to reverence books to look on them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true, whether they are about religion, politics, farming, trade, law, or medicine, they are the message of Christ, the maker of all things the teacher of all truth.

    Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.

    There is nothing more wonderful than a book. It may be a message to us from the dead, from human souls we never saw who lived perhaps thousands of miles away. And yet these little sheets of paper speak to us, arouse us, teach us, open hour hearts, and in turn open their hearts to us like brothers. Without books God is silent, justice dormant, philosophy lame.

    Do today's duty, fight today's temptation do not weaken and distract yourself by looking forward to things you cannot see, and could not understand if you saw them.


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