William Dean Howells Quotes

You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up. - William Dean Howells

Yes, people that have convictions are difficult. Fortunately, they're rare. - William Dean Howells

Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart. - William Dean Howells

What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending. - William Dean Howells

We live, but a world has passed away
With the years that perished to make us men. - William Dean Howells

Tomorrow I shall be sixty-nine, but I do not seem to care. I did not start the affair, and I have not been consulted about it at any step. - William Dean Howells

They are rather helplessly frank, but not, I hope, with all their rather helpless frankness, offensively frank. - William Dean Howells

The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested. - William Dean Howells

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