- For the New Zealand town planner of the same name, see Charles Reade (town planner)Charles Reade (town planner)Charles Compton Reade was a town planner who supported the garden city movement of the early twentieth century.Born in Invercargill, New Zealand in 1880, Reade became the major figure in disseminating Garden City ideas in Australia...
Charles Reade (8 June 1814 – 11 April 1884) was an English novelist and dramatist, best known for The Cloister and the Hearth
.
Charles Reade was born at Ipsden
, Oxfordshire to John Reade and Anne Marie Scott-Waring; William Winwood Reade
the influential historian , was his nephew. He studied at Magdalen College, Oxford
, taking his B.A. in 1835, and became a fellow of his college.
Well, every one for himself, and Providence for us all--as the elephant said when he danced among the chickens.
The fortunate man is he who, born poor, or nobody, works gradually up to wealth and consideration, and, having got them, dies before he finds they were not worth so much trouble.
What young woman is not, more or less, a mirror?
Art is not imitation but illusion.
First, think in as homely a way as you can; next, shove your pen under the thought, and lift it by polysyllables to the true level of fiction
In players, vanity cripples art at every step.
It must be confessed that a sort of halo of personal grandeur surrounds a great actress.
Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words, and suffer noble sorrows.
…even Christians loved one another at first starting.
Lower a bucket into a well of self-deception, and what comes up must be immortal truth, mustn't it?