Jane Welsh Carlyle

Homeopathy - an invention of the Father of Lies! I have tried it and found it wanting. I would swallow their whole doles' medicine chest for sixpence, and be sure of finding myself neither better nor worse for it.

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These are some quotes by Scottish author Jane Welsh Carlyle Writer, who lived between January 14, 1801 and April 21, 1866.

Quotes by Jane Welsh Carlyle

Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

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They call me 'sweet,' and 'gentle'; and some of the men go the length of calling me 'endearing,' and I laugh in my sleeve and think, 'Oh, Lord! If you but knew what a brimstone of a creature I am behind all this beautiful amiability!'

Jane Welsh Carlyle

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I rely on the promise, 'God is kind to women, fools, and drunk people.'

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