KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Showing 11-20 of 25 Quotes by Harriet Beecher Stowe

A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.

~Harriet Beecher Stowe

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.

~Harriet Beecher Stowe

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.

~Harriet Beecher Stowe

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.

~Harriet Beecher Stowe

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.

~Harriet Beecher Stowe

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.

~Harriet Beecher Stowe

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.

~Harriet Beecher Stowe

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.

~Harriet Beecher Stowe

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.

~Harriet Beecher Stowe

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.

~Harriet Beecher Stowe

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: June 14th, 1811

Died: July 1st, 1896

Links

Find Harriet Beecher Stowe on Amazon

Related Authors

Leo Buscaglia
Joseph Campbell
Frederick Douglass
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Helen Keller
Henry David Thoreau
Mark Twain
Zig Ziglar

Popular Authors

Napoleon Bonaparte Kobe Bryant Sandra Cisneros Confucius Milton Friedman John C. Maxwell Neil Degrasse Tyson Leonardo Da Vinci

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1806 - Isambard K. Brunel

1821 - Charles Baudelaire

1865 - Adela Florence Nicolson

1872 - Leon Blum

1888 - Sol Hurok

1893 - Charles Simmons

1898 - Paul Robeson

1905 - J. William Fulbright

1906 - Victor Vasarely

1910 - Abraham A. Ribicoff

Birthdays on April 9th
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Best Business Christmas Hope Inspirational Marriage New Year's Success