Quotes by Carlyle, Thomas

The devil has his elect. >>

The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were >>

If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them >>

Quotations about Literature

One learns little more about a man from his feats of literary memory t >>

The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human bei >>

All literature is gossip. >>

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

Carlyle, Thomas