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Tom Brown's Schooldays QUOTES

Tom Brown's Schooldays QUOTES

1 " At that moment his soul is fuller of the tomb and him who lies there than of the altar and Him of whom it speaks. Such stages have to be gone through, I believe, by all young and brave souls, who must win their way through hero-worship to the worship of Him who is the King and Lord of heroes. "

― Thomas Hughes , Tom Brown's Schooldays

2 " Don't be in a hurry about finding your work in the world for yourself—you are not old enough to judge for yourself yet; but just look about you in the place you find yourself in, and try to make things a little better and honester there. "

― Thomas Hughes , Tom Brown's Schooldays

3 " Don't be led away to think this part of the world important and that unimportant. Every corner of the world is important. No man knows whether this part or that is most so, but every man may do some honest work in his own corner. "

― Thomas Hughes , Tom Brown's Schooldays

4 " The astonishment soon passed off, the scales seemed to drop from his eyes, and the book became at once and for ever to him the great human and divine book, and the men and women, whom he had looked upon as something quite different from himself, became his friends and counsellors. "

― Thomas Hughes , Tom Brown's Schooldays

5 " A character for steadiness once gone is not easily recovered "

― Thomas Hughes , Tom Brown's Schooldays

6 " The giving of undue prominence to one fact brings others inexorably on the head of the student to avenge his neglect of them, "

― Thomas Hughes , Tom Brown's Schooldays

7 " We listened, as all boys in their better moods will listen (ay, and men too for the matter of that), to a man whom we felt to be, with all his heart and soul and strength, striving against whatever was mean and unmanly and unrighteous in our little world. It was not the cold, clear voice of one giving advice and warning from serene heights to those who were struggling and sinning below, but the warm, living voice of one who was fighting for us and by our sides, and calling on us to help him and ourselves and one another. "

― Thomas Hughes , Tom Brown's Schooldays

8 " The one single use of things which we call our own is that they might be his who hath need of them. "

― Thomas Hughes , Tom Brown's Schooldays

9 " Remember this, I beseech you, all you boys who are getting into the upper forms. Now is the time in all your lives, probably, when you may have more wide influence for good or evil on the society you live in than you ever can have again. "

― Thomas Hughes , Tom Brown's Schooldays

10 " ...so bear in mind that majorities, especially respectable ones, are nine times out of ten in the wrong; and that if you see man or boy striving earnestly on the weak side, however wrong-headed or blundering he may be, you are not to go and join the cry against him. If you can't join him and help him, and make him wiser, at any rate remember that he has found something in the world which he will fight and suffer for.... "

― Thomas Hughes , Tom Brown's Schooldays

11 " He who has conquered his own coward spirit has conquered the whole outward world; "

― Thomas Hughes , Tom Brown's Schooldays

12 " Boyishness—by which I mean animal life in its fullest measure, good nature and honest impulses, hatred of injustice and meanness, and thoughtlessness enough to sink a three-decker. "

― Thomas Hughes , Tom Brown's Schooldays

13 " Class amusements, be they for Dukes or plow-boys, always become nuisances and curses to a country. The true charm of cricket and hunting is that they are still, more or less sociable and universal; There's a place for every man who will come and take his part. "

― Thomas Hughes , Tom Brown's Schooldays

14 " I want to leave behind me the name of a fellow who never bullied a little boy, or turned his back on a big one. "

― Thomas Hughes , Tom Brown's Schooldays

15 " However, you'll all find, if you haven't found it out already, that a time comes in every human friendship when you must go down into the depths of yourself, and lay bare what is there to your friend, and wait in fear for his answer. "

― Thomas Hughes , Tom Brown's Schooldays

16 " Life isn't all beer and skittles; but beer and skittles, or something better of the same sort, must form a good part of every Englishman's education. "

― Thomas Hughes , Tom Brown's Schooldays

17 " Tom and his younger brothers, as they grew up, went on playing with the village boys, without the idea of equality or inequality (except in wrestling, running, and climbing) ever entering their heads; as it doesn't till it's put there by Jack Nastys or fine ladies' maids. "

― Thomas Hughes , Tom Brown's Schooldays