Charles Dudley Warner Quotes

• It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.

  Charles Dudley Warner

• I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.

  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

• 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

• Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.

  Charles Dudley Warner

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

  Charles Dudley Warner

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

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Tags in Self Acceptance

• The wise man’s … friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Topics in Friendship

• Broad acres are a patent of nobility; and 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 4000 miles deep; and that is a very handsome property.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Tags in Ownership, Possession

Charles Dudley Warner (29)

Birth:	12th September, 1829
Death:	20th October, 1900
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Essayist, Novelist

About

Charles Dudley Warner was born in Plainfield, Massachusetts. He was an American essayist and novelist. He co-authored the novel The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today. He worked with a surveying party in Missouri; studied law at the University of Pennsylvania; practiced in Chicago; was assistant editor and editor of The Hartford Press. He first attracted attention by the reflective sketches entitled My Summer in a Garden. He also edited The American Men of Letters series, to which he contributed an excellent biography of Washington Irving, and edited a large Library of the World's Best Literature.

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