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....

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.

Each one of us must suffer long to himself before he can learn that he is but one in a great community....

She liked the words they satisfied her famine for phrases.

The conqueror is regarded with awe the wise man commands our respect but it is only the benevolent man....

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

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

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