William Dean Howells Short Quotes

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And before you know me gone
Eternity and I are one.

William Dean Howells
He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.

William Dean Howells
Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.

William Dean Howells
Clemens was sole, incomparable, the Lincoln of our literature.

William Dean Howells
Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.

William Dean Howells
The wrecks of slavery are fast growing a fungus crop of sentiment.

William Dean Howells
Yes, what the American public wants is a tragedy with a happy ending.

William Dean Howells
What the American public always wants is a tragedy with a happy ending.

William Dean Howells
Those novels with old-fashioned heroes and heroines in them are ruinous!

William Dean Howells
Is it worth while to observe that there are no Venetian blinds in Venice?

William Dean Howells
He has lived heroic poetry, and he can, therefore, afford to talk simple prose.
Of a speech by Booker T. Washington

William Dean Howells
It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom.

William Dean Howells
We live, but a world has passed away
With the years that perished to make us men.

William Dean Howells
The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.

William Dean Howells
A friend knows how to allow for mere quantity in your talk, and only replies to the quality.

William Dean Howells
The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested...

William Dean Howells
Preach the blessings of our deeply incorporated civilization by the mouths of our eight-inch guns.

William Dean Howells
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.

William Dean Howells
You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up.

William Dean Howells
Nothing is so hard to understand as that there are human beings in this world besides one's self and one's set.

William Dean Howells
There will presently be no room in the world for things; it will be filled up with the advertisements of things.

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It is the curse of prosperity that it takes work away from us, and shuts that door to hope and health of spirit.

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We invite our novelists... to concern themselves with the more smiling aspects of life, which are the more American.

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We are creatures of the moment; we live from one little space to another, and only one interest at a time fills these.

William Dean Howells
The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you.

William Dean Howells