Quotes about William Dean Howells

Primitive societies without religion have never been found.

#William Dean Howells

It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of...

#William Dean Howells

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

#William Dean Howells

Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.

#William Dean Howells

In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying...

#William Dean Howells

If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like...

#William Dean Howells

How is it the great pieces of good luck fall to us?

#William Dean Howells

He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.

#William Dean Howells

A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too...

#William Dean Howells

You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago...

#William Dean Howells

Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.

#William Dean Howells

What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.

#William Dean Howells