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
men plot fiction
Plots are no more exhausted than men are. Every man is a new creation, and combinations are simply endless.
men toil pieces
Let us celebrate the soil. Most men toil that they may own a piece of it; they measure their success in life by their ability to buy it.
flower men he-man
There is life in the ground; it goes into the seeds and also when it is stirred up goes into the man who stirs it.
men garden race
To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch the renewal of life - this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do.
men chess disgusting
There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.
men garden world
The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world.
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.
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?
nature men garden
What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.
men world four
No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property.
marriage husband taken
There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him and settled him in her own mind, and knows him as well as if she had ordered him after designs and specifications of her own.
friendship regret years
One discovers a friend by chance, and cannot but feel regret that 20 or 30 years of life may have been spent without the least knowledge of him.
class sometimes failing
Snobbery, being an aspiring failing, is sometimes the prophecy of better things.
fool aspiration
It is only the fools who keep straining at high C all their lives.