4 Quotes & Sayings By Jane Welsh Carlyle

Jane Welsh Carlyle is an award-winning author of over 20 books, including the bestselling novel The Mists of Avalon. She has received many prestigious awards, including the Burman Fellowship in Creative Writing (for writing about the Arthurian legend), the Leila Y. Zendel Award for Historical Fiction, and was named one of "The 100 Most Influential Women in the World" by Ladies Home Journal.

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Blessed be the inventor of photography! I set him above even the inventor of chloroform! It has given more positive pleasure to po or suffering humanity than anything else that has "cast up" in my time or is like to--this art by which even the "poor" can possess themselves of tolerable likenesses of their absent dear ones. And mustn't it be acting favourably on the morality of the country? Jane Welsh Carlyle
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The only thing that makes one place more attractive to me than another is the quantity of heart I find in it. Jane Welsh Carlyle
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I have lived so long among people who do not understand me, been so long accustomed to refrain and disguise myself for fear of being laughed at, that I have grown as difficult to come at as a snail in a shell; and what is worse, I cannot come out of my shell when I wish it. Jane Welsh Carlyle