Top 19 Quotes by Charles Kingsley

We have used the Bible as if it were a mere special constable's handbook, an opium dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while they are overloaded.

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day.

Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever.

A man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough gentleman than if he had been brought up in all the drawing-rooms in London.

There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.

Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.

Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.

There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.