Charles Dudley Warner Quotes

Charles Dudley Warner was an American essayist, novelist, and friend of Mark Twain, with whom he co-authored the novel The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today. Wikipedia  

✵ 12. September 1829 – 20. October 1900
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Famous Charles Dudley Warner Quotes

“A well known American writer said once that, while everybody talked about the weather, nobody seemed to do anything about it.”

Charles Dudley Warner

Editorial, Hartford Courant (27 August 1897); this remark was reportedly quoted by Mark Twain and it has become often attributed to him, but the context of the statement might indicate the contrary situation
Paraphrased variant: Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.
Variant: Everybody complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.

“What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back,—with a hinge in it.”

Charles Dudley Warner

Third Week.
My Summer in a Garden (1870)

“Politics makes strange bedfellows.”

Charles Dudley Warner

Fifteenth Week.
My Summer in a Garden (1870)

Charles Dudley Warner Quotes

“There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.”

Charles Dudley Warner

Studies in the South and West with Comments on Canada (1889).

“The toad, without which no garden would be complete.”

Charles Dudley Warner

Thirteenth Week.
My Summer in a Garden (1870)

“The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.”

Charles Dudley Warner

Sixteenth Week.
My Summer in a Garden (1870)

“What small potatoes we all are, compared with what we might be!”

Charles Dudley Warner

Fifteenth Week.
My Summer in a Garden (1870)

“Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.”

Charles Dudley Warner

Preliminary.
My Summer in a Garden (1870)

“Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the Ten Commandments.”

Charles Dudley Warner

Sixteenth Week.
My Summer in a Garden (1870)

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