Thomas Carlyle Quotes on People (11 Quotes)

I never heard tell of any clever man that came of entirely stupid people.

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history books.

We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, which, in all times, with one or another meaning, has been called Inspiration, and held to be mysterious and inscrutable, is no longer without its scientific exposition. The building of the lofty rhyme is like any other masonry or bricklaying we have theories of its rise, height, decline and fall -- which latter, it would seem, is now near, among all people.

The Persians are called the French of the East we will call the Arabs Oriental Italians. A gifted noble people a people of wild strong feelings, and of iron restraint over these the characteristic of noblemindedness, of genius.

Happy the people whose annals are vacant.

No sadder proof can be given of a person's own tiny stature, than their disbelief in great people.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

Real good breeding, as the people have it here, is one of the finest things now going in the world. The careful avoidance of all discussion, the swift hopping from topic to topic, does not agree with me. . .

If Jesus Christ were to come to-day, people wouldn't even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.

Pleasure is the last resort of the desperate. Happy people do not need to be amused.