Charles Dudley Warner
Charles Dudley Warner
Charles Dudley Warnerwas an American essayist, novelist, and friend of Mark Twain, with whom he co-authored the novel The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth12 September 1829
CountryUnited States of America
Charles Dudley Warner quotes about
believe facts doe
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.
beautiful vegetables essence
The onion and its satin wrappings is among the most beautiful of vegetables and is the only one that represents the essence of things. It can be said to have a soul.
reading mind doe
Nothing is worth reading that does not require an alert mind.
family happiness being-happy
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.
funny science weather
Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.
dirty oats pie
Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.
faults world persons
The most popular persons are those who take the world as it is who find the least fault.
lying hype people
People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.
funny artist canvas
A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.
ignorance doe generations
It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.
nature men garden
What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.
food bitter culinary
Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.
travel life-is-like delight
There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.
fire simplicity world
To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world.