Quotes by Howells, William Dean

Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself. >>

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise. >>

A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too la >>

Quotations about Tragedies

The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions. >>

There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in >>

We participate in tragedy. At comedy we only look. >>

What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.

Howells, William Dean