Quotes by : William Dean Howells

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

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

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!....

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....

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

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....