Quotes by : William Dean Howells

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

Every one is expected to look out for himself here. I fancy that there would be very little rising if....

She had conquered, but she had also necessarily lost much. Perhaps what she had lost was not worth keeping;....

I wish you to believe whatever you think is true, at any and every cost.

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

How strange it (the earthquake) must all have seemed to them, here where they lived so safely always!....

She liked the words they satisfied her famine for phrases.

Yes, there's sense in that. But the suddenly rich are on a level with any of us nowadays. Money buys....

Does it afflict you to find your books wearing out? I mean literally .. . the mortality of all inanimate....

Ah, we shall never have a real aristocracy while this plebeian reluctance to live upon a parent or a....