Charles Dudley Warner

Journalist

1829-09-12 – 1900-10-20

Charles Dudley Warner was an American essayist, novelist, and editor associated with The Hartford Courant. He collaborated with Mark Twain on The Gilded Age. Warner was a prominent literary and journalistic voice in late 19th-century America.

Quotes by Charles Dudley Warner

Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.
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Politics makes strange bedfellows.
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Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.
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It is difficult to be emphatic when no one is emphatic on the other side.
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A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend-just as good as the real.
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It is only the fools who keep straining at high C all their lives.
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Have you any right to read, especially novels, until you have exhausted the best part of the day in some employment that is called practical?
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That talk must be very well in hand and under great headway, that an anecdote thrown in front of will not pitch off the track and wreck.
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The faculties for getting into jail seem to be ample. We want more organizations for keeping people out.
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One of the advantages of pure congregational singing is that you can join in the singing whether you have a voice or not. The disadvantage is, that your neighbor can do the same.
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The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.
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We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.
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Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.
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Each age has its choice of the death it will die.
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Plots are no more exhausted than men are. Every man is a new creation, and combinations are simply endless.
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There is life in the ground: it goes into the seeds; and it also, when it is stirred up, goes into the man who stirs it.
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Blessed be agriculture! if one does not have too much of it.
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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.
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Lettuce is like conversation: it must be fresh and crisp, and so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.
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To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch their renewal of life,-this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do.
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