Quote

Wherever is love and loyalty, great purposes and lofty souls, even though in a hovel or a mine, there is fairyland.

Charles Kingsley

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Charles Kingsley
Age: 55 †
Born: 1819
Born: June 12
Died: 1875
Died: January 23
Cleric
Historian
Novelist
Poet
Professor
University Teacher
Writer
Devonshire
Canon Kingsley
Mine
Hovel
Though
Fairyland
Purpose
Lofty
Soul
Purposes
Great
Loyalty
Even
Wherever
Love
Souls
Mines

More quotes by Charles Kingsley

Image
If ifs and ands were pots and pans, there'd be no work for tinkers' hands
Charles Kingsley
Image
If you want to be miserable, think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you and what people think of you.
Charles Kingsley
Image
We have used the Bible as if it was a mere special constable's handbook — an opium-dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while they were being overloaded — a mere book to keep the poor in order.
Charles Kingsley
Image
Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever.
Charles Kingsley
Image
A man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough gentleman than if he had been brought up in all the drawing-rooms in London.
Charles Kingsley
Image
The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see.
Charles Kingsley
Image
Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work.
Charles Kingsley
Image
Therefore, let us be patient, patient and let God our Father teach His own lesson, His own way. Let us try to learn it well and quickly but do not let us fancy that He will ring the school-bell, and send us to play before our lesson is learnt.
Charles Kingsley
Image
Do what thou dost as if the earth were heaven, and thy last day the day of judgment.
Charles Kingsley
Image
Music has been called the speech of the angels I will go farther and call it the speech of God Himself.
Charles Kingsley
Image
It is not darkness you are going to, for God is Light. It is not lonely, for Christ is with you. It is not unknown country, for Christ is there.
Charles Kingsley
Image
Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message from the dead - from human souls we never saw, who lived, perhaps, thousands of miles away. And yet these, in those little sheets of paper, speak to us, arouse us, terrify us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers.
Charles Kingsley
Image
Are gods more ruthless than mortals? Have they no mercy for youth? no love for the souls who have loved them?
Charles Kingsley
Image
For men must work and women must weep, And the sooner it's over, the sooner to sleep.
Charles Kingsley
Image
If you wish to be miserable, think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you, what people think of you and then to you nothing will be pure. You will spoil everything you touch you will make sin and misery for yourself out of everything God sends you you will be as wretched as you choose.
Charles Kingsley
Image
Ay, marriage is the life-long miracle, The self-begetting wonder, daily fresh.
Charles Kingsley
Image
Our wanton accidents take root, and grow To vaunt themselves God's laws.
Charles Kingsley
Image
Possession means to sit astride the world Instead of having it astride of you.
Charles Kingsley
Image
The loveliest fairy in the world and her name is Mrs Do as you would bed one by.
Charles Kingsley
Image
Nothing is so infectious as example.
Charles Kingsley