Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe

Quotes

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.

In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.

The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.

To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.

I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.

Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

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