Quotes by William Dean Howells

William Dean Howells

A friend knows how to allow for mere quantity in your talk, and only replies to the quality.

Know How

Quality

Quantity

A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it’s too late to let her know that he sees it.

Men

Mom

Mother

Christ and the life of Christ is at this moment inspiring the literature of the world as never before, and raising it up a witness against waste and want and war. It may confess Him, as in Tolstoi’s work it does, or it may deny Him, but it cannot exclude Him; and in the degree that it ignores His spirit, modern literature is artistically inferior. In other words, all good literature is now Christmas literature.

Degrees

Doe

War

Each one of us must suffer long to himself before he can learn that he is but one in a great community of wretchedness which has been pitilessly repeating itself from the foundation of the world.

Community

Long

Suffering

He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.

Inspirational

Silence

Sleep

I know, indeed, of nothing more subtly satisfying and cheering than a knowledge of the real good will and appreciation of others. Such happiness does not come with money, nor does it flow from fine physical state. It cannot be brought. But it is the keenest joy, after all; and the toiler’s truest and best reward.

Appreciation

Cheer

Happiness

I wonder why we hate the past so.

Hate

History

Past

If ever the public was betrayed by its press, it’s ours.

Betrayed

Ifs

Presses

It is the curse of prosperity that it takes work away from us, and shuts that door to hope and health of spirit.

Doors

Expectations

Hope

It’s a curious thing, this thing we call civilization…we think it is an affair of epochs, and nations. It’s really an affair of individuals. One brother will be civilized and the other a barbarian…All civilization comes through literature now, especially in our country. A Greek got his civilization by talking and looking, and in some measure a Parisian may still do it. But we, who live remote from history and monuments, we must read or we must barbarise.

Brother

Country

Thinking

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Filled Up

Found

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Gun

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Heart

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Hope

Ifs

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Mom

Mother

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Quotes by William Dean Howells

William Dean Howells

A friend knows how to allow for mere quantity in your talk, and only replies to the quality.

A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it’s too late to let her know that he sees it.

Each one of us must suffer long to himself before he can learn that he is but one in a great community of wretchedness which has been pitilessly repeating itself from the foundation of the world.

He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.

I wonder why we hate the past so.

If ever the public was betrayed by its press, it’s ours.

It is the curse of prosperity that it takes work away from us, and shuts that door to hope and health of spirit.

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