Charles Kingsley Biography

Occup.Clergyman
FromEngland
BornJune 12, 1819
Holne, Devon, England
DiedJanuary 23, 1875
Eversley, Hampshire, England
Aged55 years
Charles Kingsley was a British writer. In 1848 he made his debut with the unique Yeast, a trouble.

Kingsley was in 1842, a priest and also later on Dean of Chester and also Westminster, and in 1860 ended up being professor of modern-day history at Cambridge University. He stood for the wide church of the Anglican Church. Uncle to the anthropologist Mary Kingsley.

Charles Kingsley was part of a group of Oxonians (in Oxford) that shared his rate of interest in German philosophy as well as science. The friends of the circuit - Friedrich Max Muller, James Anthony Froude, Matthew Arnold and CJ Christian von Bunsen - vurmade for the "Aryan", "Teutonic" as well as "Anglo-Saxon" heritage.

It is stated, also today amongst the Irish that the English hate racists and the Irish. "I really feel persecuted by the human primates I saw along the way by this awful nation", witch is composed by Kingsley after a journey to Ireland. "I do not believe it's our fault. I assume that not just are there even more of them than in the old days, yet also that they are happier, much better, eat and also live easily in our federal government than in the past. However to see white primates is awful, if they were black you would certainly not feel it so much, but their skin when it has been burned by the sunlight, is as white as ours." The Irish were Europe's natives. They scared the Kingsley since their skin shade did not match with his racial prejudices.

Our collection contains 20 quotes who is written / told by Charles, under the main topic Men.

Related authors: Philo (Philosopher), James Anthony Froude (Historian), Charles King (Politician), Thomas Hughes (Lawyer), Lawrence Taylor (Athlete), Max Muller (Educator), Matthew Arnold (Poet)

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20 Famous quotes by Charles Kingsley

Small: There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes the true, where he is free
"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"
Small: Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book
"Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book"
Small: Do noble things, not dream them all day long
"Do noble things, not dream them all day long"
Small: Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, dilige
"Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know"
Small: Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell
"Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell"
Small: There is a great deal of human nature in man
"There is a great deal of human nature in man"
Small: Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us
"Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us"
Small: A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly,
"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"
Small: Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is n
"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"
Small: Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work
"Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work"
Small: Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day
"Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day"
Small: All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about
"All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about"
Small: A man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough gentleman than if he had been brought up in all th
"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"
Small: Theres no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late
"There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late"
Small: He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them
"He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them"
Small: We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make
"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about"
Small: It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true f
"It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means"
Small: We have used the Bible as if it were a mere special constables handbook, an opium dose for keeping beas
"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"
Small: The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain and yesterdays sneer and yeste
"The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again"
Small: Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever
"Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever"