Quotes from Charles Dudley Warner

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

Politics makes strange bedfellows.

People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.

It is difficult to be emphatic when no one is emphatic on the other side.

There is no beauty like that which was spoiled by an accident; no accomplishments and graces are so to be envied as those that circumstances rudely hindered the development of.

There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you.

The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.

Each age has its choice of the death it will die.

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.

One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one

There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.

There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him and settled him in her own mind, and knows him as well as if she had ordered him after designs and specifications of her own.