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Widger's Quotations of Charles D. Warner
by David Widger
FROM THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EDITIONS OF THE WORKS OF CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER
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Entire Gutenberg Warner Files, by C.Warner [CW#40][cwewk10.txt]3136 Summer in a Garden, by C. D. Warner [CW#39][cwsig10.txt]3135 Backlog Studies, by Charles Dudley Warner [CW#38][cwbls10.txt]3134 Baddeck, by Charles Dudley Warner [CW#37][cwbdk10.txt]3133 In the Wilderness, by C. D. Warner [CW#36][cwitw10.txt]3132 Spring in New England, by C. D. Warner [CW#35][cwsne10.txt]3131 Captain John Smith, by C. D. Warner [CW#34][cwcjs10.txt]3130 Pocahantas, by Charles Dudley Warner [CW#33][cwpoc10.txt]3129 Saunterings, by Charles Dudley Warner [CW#32][cwsnt10.txt]3128 Being a Boy, by Charles Dudley Warner [CW#31][cwbab10.txt]3127 On Horseback, by Charles Dudley Warner [CW#30][cwohb10.txt]3126 Complete Essays, by Charles Dudley Warner [CW#29][cwces10.txt]3125 For whom Shakespeare, by C. D. Warner [CW#28][cwshk10.txt]3124 Novel and School, by Charles Dudley Warner [CW#27][cwnsc10.txt]3123 England, by Charles Dudley Warner [CW#26][cweng10.txt]3122 Mr. Froude's Progress, by C. D. Warner [CW#25][cwfpg10.txt]3121 Modern Fiction, by C. D. Warner [CW#24][cwmft10.txt]3120 Your Culture to Me, by C. D. Warner [CW#23][cwctm10.txt]3119 Equality, by Charles Dudley Warner [CW#22][cweql10.txt]3118 Literature and Life, by C. D. Warner [CW#21][cwlal10.txt]3117 Nine Short Essays, by Charles D. Warner [CW#12][cw9es10.txt]3108 Literary Copyright, by C. D. Warner [CW#20][cwlcr10.txt]3116 Indeterminate Sentence, by C. D. Warner [CW#19][cwins10.txt]3115 Education of the Negro, by C. D. Warner [CW#18][cwneg10.txt]3114 Causes of Discontent, by C. D. Warner [CW#17][cwcdc10.txt]3113 Pilgrim and American, by C. D. Warner [CW#16][cwpam10.txt]3112 Diversities of American Life, by C. Warner [CW#15][cwdal10.txt]3111 American Newspaper, by C. D. Warner [CW#14][cwanp10.txt]3110 Fashions in Literature, by C. D. Warner [CW#13][cwflt10.txt]3109 Nine Short Essays, by Charles D. Warner [CW#12][cw9es10.txt]3108 CONTENTS: Night in Tuilleries Truthfulness Pursuit of Happiness Literature and the Stage Life Prolonging Art H.H. in S. California Simplicity English Volunteers Nathan Hale As We Go, by Charles Dudley Warner [CW#11][cwawg10.txt]3107 As We Were Saying, by C. D. Warner [CW#10][cwaws10.txt]3106 That Fortune, by Charles Dudley Warner [CW#9][cwfrt10.txt]3105 The Golden House, by Charles Dudley Warner [CW#8][cwgld10.txt]3104 Little Journey in the World, by C. Warner [CW#7][cwljw10.txt]3103 Their Pilgrimage, by Charles Dudley Warner [CW#6][cwpil10.txt]3102 Washington Irving, by Charles Dudley Warner [CW#5][cwirv10.txt]3101
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WIDGER'S QUOTATIONS of CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER
WASHINGTON IRVING [CW#5][cwirv10.txt]3101
"Some persons, in looking upon life, view it as they would view a picture, with a stern and criticising eye. He also looks upon life as a picture, but to catch its beauties, its lights,—not its defects and shadows. On the former he loves to dwell. He has a wonderful knack at shutting his eyes to the sinister side of anything. Never beat a more kindly heart than his; alive to the sorrows, but not to the faults, of his friends, but doubly alive to their virtues and goodness. Indeed, people seemed to grow more good with one so unselfish and so gentle." —Emily Foster.
….authors are particularly candid in admitting the faults of their friends.
The governor, from the stern of his schooner, gave a short but truly patriarchal address to his citizens, wherein he recommended them to comport like loyal and peaceable subjects,—to go to church regularly on Sundays, and to mind their business all the week besides. That the women should be dutiful and affectionate to their husbands,—looking after nobody's concerns but their own,—eschewing all gossipings and morning gaddings,—and carrying short tongues and long petticoats. That the men should abstain from intermeddling in public concerns, intrusting the cares of government to the officers appointed to support them, staying at home, like good citizens, making money for themselves, and getting children for the benefit of their country.
It happens to the princes of literature to encounter periods of varying duration when their names are revered and their books are not read. The growth, not to say the fluctuation, of Shakespeare's popularity is one of the curiosities of literary history. Worshiped by his contemporaries, apostrophized by Milton only fourteen pears after his death as the "dear son of memory, great heir to fame,"—"So sepulchred in such pomp dost lie, That kings, for such a tomb, would wish to die,"—he was neglected by the succeeding age, the subject of violent extremes of opinion in the eighteenth century, and so lightly esteemed by some that Hume could doubt if he were a poet "capable of furnishing a proper entertainment to a refined and intelligent audience," and attribute to the rudeness of his "disproportioned and misshapen" genius the "reproach of barbarism" which the English nation had suffered from all its neighbors.
I have lost confidence in the favorable disposition of my countrymen, and look forward to cold scrutiny and stern criticism, and this is a line of writing in which I have not hitherto ascertained my own powers. Could I afford it, I should like to write, and to lay my writings aside when finished. There is an independent delight in study and in the creative exercise of the pen; we live in a world of dreams, but publication lets in the noisy rabble of the world, and there is an end of our dreaming.
THEIR PILGRIMAGE [CW#6][cwpil10.txt]3102
Act of eating is apt to be disenchanting Air of endurance that fathers of families put on Anxiously asked at every turn how he likes it As much by what they did not say as by what they did say Asked Mr King if this was his first visit Beautifully regular and more satisfactorily monotonous Best part of a conversation is the things not said Comfort of leaving same things to the imagination Common attitude of the wholesale to the retail dealer Confident opinions about everything Couldn't stand this sort of thing much longer Designed by a carpenter, and executed by a stone-mason Facetious humor that is more dangerous than grumbling Fat men/women were never intended for this sort of exhibition Feeding together in a large room must be a little humiliating Fish, they seemed to say, are not so easily caught as men Florid man, who "swelled" in, patronizing the entire room Hated a fellow that was always in high spirits Irresponsibility of hotel life It is a kind of information I have learned to dispense with It's an occupation for a man to keep up a cottage Let me be unhappy now and then, and not say anything about it Live, in short, rather more for one's self than for society Loftily condescending Lunch was dinner and that dinner was supper Man in love is poor company for himself and for everybody else Nearsighted, you know, about seeing people that are not Not to care about anything you do care about Notion of duty has to account for much of the misery in life People who haven't so many corners as our people have People who leave home on purpose to grumble Pet dogs of all degrees of ugliness Satisfy the average taste without the least aid from art Seemed only a poor imitation of pleasure Shrinking little man, whose whole appearance was an apology Small frame houses hopelessly decorated with scroll-work So many swearing colors Thinking of themselves and the effect they are producing Vanishing shades of an attractive and consolable grief Women are cruelest when they set out to be kind Wore their visible exclusiveness like a garment Young ones who know what is best for the elders
LITTLE JOURNEY IN THE WORLD [CW#7][cwljw10.txt]3103
Absurd to be so interested in fictitious trouble And in this way I crawled out of the discussion, as usual Anything can be borne if he knows that he shall see her tomorrow Clubs and circles Democracy is intolerant of variations from the general level Do you think so? Eagerness to acquire the money of other people, not to make it Easier to be charitable than to be just Everybody has read it Great deal of mind, it takes him so long to make it up How much good do you suppose condescending charity does? In youth, as at the opera, everything seems possible It is so easy to turn life into a comedy! It is so painful to shrink, and so delightful to grow! Knew how roughly life handles all youthful enthusiasms Liberty to indulge in republican simplicity Much easier to forgive a failure than a success Not the use of money, but of the use money makes of you One thing to entertain and another to be entertaining Possessory act of readjusting my necktie Process which is called weighing a thing in the mind Simple enjoyment being considered an unworthy motive Society that exists mainly to pay its debts gets stupid Talk is always tame if no one dares anything Tastes and culture were of the past age Unhappy are they whose desires are all ratified World has become so tolerant that it doesn't care
THE GOLDEN HOUSE [CW#8][cwgld10.txt]3104
Absolutely necessary that the world should be amused Affectation of familiarity Air of determined enjoyment Always did what he said he would do Desire to do something rather than the desire to make something Don't know what it's all for—I doubt if there is much in it Easier to make art fashionable than to make fashion artistic Emanation of aggressive prosperity Everybody is superficially educated Grateful for her forbearance of verbal expression Happy life: an income left, not earned by toil Her very virtues are enemies of her peace How little a thing can make a woman happy Human vanity will feed on anything within its reach If one man wins, somebody else has got to lose Knew how to be confidential without disclosing anything Long-established habits of aversion or forbearance Moral hazard bravely incurred in the duty of knowing life Nature is such a beautiful painter of wood No confidences are possible outside of that relation No one expected anything, and no one was disappointed No such thing as a cheap yacht Ordering and eating the right sort of lunch Pitiful about habitual hypocrisy is that it never deceives anybody "Squares," where the poor children get their idea of forests To be commanded with such gentleness was a sort of luxury Was getting to be the fashion; but now it's fashionable Whatever he disclosed was always in confidence World requires a great variety of people to keep it going
THAT FORTUNE [CW#9][cwfrt10.txt]3105
Artist who cannot paint a rail-fence cannot paint a pyramid Best things for us in this world are the things we don't get Big subject does not make a big writer Bud will never come to flower if you pull it in pieces Do you know what it is to want what you don't want? Few people can resist doing what is universally expected of them Freedom to excel in nothing Had gained everything he wanted in life except happiness Indefeasible right of the public to have news Intellectual poverty Known something if I hadn't been kept at school Longing is one thing and reason another Making himself instead of in making money Mediocrity of the amazing art product Never go fishing without both fly and bait Nothing like it certainly had happened to anybody Object was to win a case rather than to do justice in a case Public that gets tired of anything in about three days Remaining enjoyment is the indulgence of frank speech Sell your manuscripts, but don't sell your soul Success is often a misfortune Summer days that come but to go There isn't much to feel here except what you see Things that are self-evident nobody seems to see Vanity at the bottom of even a reasonable ambition We confound events with causes What is society for?
AS WE WERE SAYING [CW#10][cwaws10.txt]3106
