Top Ten Best William Dean Howells Quotes
William Dean Howells was an American realist author and literary critic.The Top Ten
1 He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.
2 The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.
3 Her mouth is a honey-blossom, No doubt, as the poet sings; But within her lips, the petals, Lurks a cruel bee that stings.
4 See how today's achievement is only tomorrow's confusion; See how possession always cheapens the thing that was precious.
5 We live, but a world has passed away With the years that perished to make us men.
6 An artistic atmosphere does not create..atmosphere..poets & painters spring up where..never a verse made or..picture seen..God is no more idle now than..at..beginning..He is still & forever shaping..human chaos into the instruments & means of beauty.
7 And before you know me gone Eternity and I are one.
8 The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested...
9 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.
10 What the American public wants is a tragedy with a happy ending.
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