Famous Quotes / William Dean Howells
12 Quotations by William Dean Howells
- 1. A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know he sees it.
- 2. An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.
- 3. He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.
- 4. I know, indeed, of nothing more subtle, satisfying and cheering than a knowledge of the real good wi ...
- 5. Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.
- 6. It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom.
- 7. Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.
- 8. Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.
- 9. The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.
- 10. The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested
- 11. What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.
- 12. You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time short ...