Charles Dudley Warner Quotes

Nothing is worth reading that does not require an alert mind.

A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.

There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.

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.

Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.

In onion is strength; and a garden without it lacks flavour. The onion, in its satin wrappings, is among the most beautiful of vegetables; and it is the only one that represents the essence of things. It can almost be said to have a soul.

It is only the fools who keep straining at high C all their lives.

One of the advantages of pure congregational singing is that you can join in the singing whether you have a voice or not. The disadvantage is that your neighbor can do the same.

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value

The tenure of a literary reputation is the most uncertain and fluctuating of all.

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.

A woman set on anything will walk right through the moral crockery without wincing.

Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.

Each age has its choice of the death it will die.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.

I know that unremitting attention to business is the price of success, but I don't know what success is.

Plots are no more exhausted than men are. Every man is a new creation, and combinations are simply endless.

Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.

Politics makes strange bedfellows.

Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.

A garden is an awful responsibility. You never know what you may be aiding to grow in it.

The stranger who receives the rare gift of human kindness holds its value in his heart forever.