35 ordspråk av William Dean Howells

William Dean Howells

William Dean Howells

William Dean Howells föddes den 1 marts 1837 och dog den 11 maj 1920 - US writer
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There will presently be no room in the world for things; it will be filled up with the advertisements of things.

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

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

Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself

Her mouth is a honey-blossom,
No doubt, as the poet sings;
But within her lips, the petals,
Lurks a cruel bee that stings.

He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence

Now I know that so long as we have social inequality we shall have snobs; we shall have men who bully and truckle, and women who snub and crawl. I know that it is futile to, spurn them, or lash them for trying to get on in the world, and that the world is what it must be from the selfish motives which underlie our economic life.

Lord, for the erring thought
Not into evil wrought:
Lord, for the wicked will
Betrayed and baffled still:
For the heart from itself kept,
Our thanksgiving accept.

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

Is it worth while to observe that there are no Venetian blinds in Venice?

In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and . . . in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere.

And the names he loved to hear
Have been carved for many a year
On the tomb.

Primitive societies without religion have never been found.

Yes, people that have convictions are difficult. Fortunately, they're rare.

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

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