Charles Reade citations

Charles Reade était écrivain britannique.

✵ 8. juin 1814 – 11. avril 1884
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Charles Reade: Citations en anglais

“Art is not imitation but illusion.”

Charles Reade livre Christie Johnstone

Source: Christie Johnstone (1853), CHAPTER XII.

“…even Christians loved one another at first starting.”

Charles Reade livre The Cloister and the Hearth

Source: The Cloister and the Hearth (1861), CHAPTER I

“It must be confessed that a sort of halo of personal grandeur surrounds a great actress.”

Charles Reade livre Peg Woffington

Source: Peg Woffington (1853), CHAPTER I

“Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.”

Charles Reade

Possibly a misattribution, ascribed to Reade in Notes and Queries (9th Series) vol. 12, 17 October 1903. It appears (as an un-sourced quotation) in Life and Labor (1887) by Samuel Smiles and in the front of The Power of Womanhood by Ellice Hopkins (1899) htm http://www.gutenberg.org/files/13722/13722-h/13722-h..<br>Apparently a common saying in 19th century. It has been also attributed to an “old Chinese proverb”, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863), George Dana Boardman (1828-1903), Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard (1839-1898), James Allen (1864-1912), Marcus Fabius Quintilianus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quintilian http://www.worldofquotes.com/author/Quintilian-(Marcus-Fabius-Quintilian)/1/index.html and William James.<br>No original source has ever been isolated. Its structure strongly reflects that of a &quot;&quot;classical Chinese&quot;&quot; set of aphorisms; and it may have been deliberately constructed in that form, by a non-Chinese, to imply an oriental (and, perhaps, far wiser) origin.<br>Finally, almost all of those who cite the complete piece:<br>::We sow a thought and reap an act;<br>::We sow an act and reap a habit;<br>::We sow a habit and reap a character;<br>::We sow a character and reap a destiny.<br>state that, in their view, it was written to expand an embellish the notion that was expressed at Proverbs XXIII:7 (&quot;&quot;For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he&quot;&quot;). <br class="br">Attributed

“Make 'em laugh; make 'em cry; make 'em wait.”

Charles Reade

Advice given to an aspiring writer.
Attributed

“Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words, and suffer noble sorrows.”

Charles Reade livre The Cloister and the Hearth

Source: The Cloister and the Hearth (1861), CHAPTER I

“Courage, mon ami, le diable est mort! / Take courage, my friend, the devil is dead!”

Charles Reade livre The Cloister and the Hearth

Source: The Cloister and the Hearth (1861), CHAPTER XXIII

“In players, vanity cripples art at every step.”

Charles Reade livre Peg Woffington

Source: Peg Woffington (1853), CHAPTER I

“What young woman is not, more or less, a mirror?”

Charles Reade livre Christie Johnstone

Source: Christie Johnstone (1853), CHAPTER I

“Lower a bucket into a well of self-deception, and what comes up must be immortal truth, mustn't it?”

Charles Reade livre The Cloister and the Hearth

Source: The Cloister and the Hearth (1861), CHAPTER V

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