Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The chief effect of talk on any subject is to strengthen one's own opinions, and, in fact, one never knows exactly what he does believe until he is warmed into conviction by the heat of attack and defence.
Charles Dudley Warner
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Charles Dudley Warner
Age: 71 †
Born: 1829
Born: September 12
Died: 1900
Died: October 20
Actor
Novelist
Writer
Hampshire County
Massachusetts
Doe
Subject
Defence
Believe
Exactly
Chief
Never
Subjects
Chiefs
Effects
Opinions
Opinion
Attack
Talk
Heat
Fact
Conviction
Warmed
Facts
Effect
Strengthen
More quotes by Charles Dudley Warner
Hoeing in the garden on a bright, soft May day, when you are not obligated to, is nearly equal to the delight of going trouting.
Charles Dudley Warner
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.
Charles Dudley Warner
The world is full of poetry as the earth is of pay-dirt one only needs to know how to strike it.
Charles Dudley Warner
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?
Charles Dudley Warner
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.
Charles Dudley Warner
What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.
Charles Dudley Warner
It is only the fools who keep straining at high C all their lives.
Charles Dudley Warner
Nature is, in fact, a suggester of uneasiness, a promoter of pilgrimages and of excursions of the fancy which never come to any satisfactory haven.
Charles Dudley Warner
People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.
Charles Dudley Warner
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.
Charles Dudley Warner
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.
Charles Dudley Warner
Politics makes strange bedfellows.
Charles Dudley Warner
Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.
Charles Dudley Warner
A woman set on anything will walk right through the moral crockery without wincing.
Charles Dudley Warner
Blessed be agriculture! if one does not have too much of it.
Charles Dudley Warner
Plots are no more exhausted than men are. Every man is a new creation, and combinations are simply endless.
Charles Dudley Warner
There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.
Charles Dudley Warner
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.
Charles Dudley Warner
Woman is perpetual revolution, and is that element in the world which continually destroys and recreates.
Charles Dudley Warner
Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire.
Charles Dudley Warner
