William Dean Howells Quotes
Top 42 wise famous quotes and sayings by William Dean Howells
William Dean Howells Famous Quotes & Sayings
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People are born and married, and live and die, in the midst of an uproar so frantic that you would think they would go mad of it.
You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up.
The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.
There will presently be no room in the world for things; it will be filled up with the advertisements of things.
A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know that he sees it.
Tomorrow I shall be sixty-nine, but I do not seem to care. I did not start the affair, and I have not been consulted about it at any step.
The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you.
In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere.
See how today's achievement is only tomorrow's confusion;See how possession always cheapens the thing that was precious.
It seems to me a proof of the small advance our race has made in true wisdom, that we find it so hard to give up doing anything we have meant to do.
She had conquered, but she had also necessarily lost much. Perhaps what she had lost was not worth keeping; but at any rate she had lost it.
We are creatures of the moment; we live from one little space to another, and only one interest at a time fills these.
It is the curse of prosperity that it takes work away from us, and shuts that door to hope and health of spirit.