Charles Dudley Warner
Charles Dudley Warner
Charles Dudley Warnerwas an American essayist, novelist, and friend of Mark Twain, with whom he co-authored the novel The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth12 September 1829
CountryUnited States of America
Charles Dudley Warner quotes about
morning believe boys
The boy who expects every morning to open into a new world finds that today is like yesterday, but he believes tomorrow will be different.
men garden world
The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world.
being-different half conformity
We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.
revolution elements world
Woman is perpetual revolution, and is that element in the world which continually destroys and recreates.
women imagination sentimental
Women are not as sentimental as men, and are not so easily touched with the unspoken poetry of nature, being less poetical, and having less imagination; they are more fitted for practical affairs, and would make fewer failures in business.
friendship wise men
The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.
selfish opportunity people
I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.
loss circles confusion
The world so quickly adjusts itself after any loss, that the return of the departed would nearly always throw it, even the circle most interested, into confusion.
world helping nations
There was never a nation that became great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.
boys practice world
One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one
cat going-away noses
If there was any petting to be done...he chose to do it. Often he would sit looking at me, and then, moved by a delicate affection, come and pull at my coat and sleeve until he could touch my face with his nose, and then go away contented.
success achievement attention
I know that unremitting attention to business is the price of success, but I don't know what success is.
war hate men
How many wars have been caused by fits of indigestion, and how many more dynasties have been upset by the love of woman than by the hate of man?
might potatoes
What small potatoes we all are, compared with what we might be!