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
emotional world earth
The world is full of poetry as the earth is of pay-dirt; one only needs to know how to strike it.
money world absolutes
There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you.
men garden world
The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world.
revolution elements world
Woman is perpetual revolution, and is that element in the world which continually destroys and recreates.
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
faults world persons
The most popular persons are those who take the world as it is who find the least fault.
fire simplicity world
To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world.
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.
real simple legends
A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend-"just as good as the real.