Quote

Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public.

E. W. Howe

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

E. W. Howe
Age: 84 †
Born: 1853
Born: May 3
Died: 1937
Died: October 3
Editor
Journalist
Novelist
Edgar Watson Howe
Public
Things
People
Shocked
Pretend
Spirituality
Private
Worse
Seen

More quotes by E. W. Howe

Image
There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.
E. W. Howe
Image
Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.
E. W. Howe
Image
As soon as the people fix one Shame of the World, another turns up.
E. W. Howe
Image
The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.
E. W. Howe
Image
A woman does not spend all her time in buying things she spends part of it in taking them back.
E. W. Howe
Image
The greatest thing in the world is for a man to be able to do something well, and say nothing about it.
E. W. Howe
Image
When a man dies, and his kin are glad of it, they say, He is better off.
E. W. Howe
Image
The more wealth a man has, the louder his children talk.
E. W. Howe
Image
If a man has money, it is usually a sign, too, that he knows how to take care of it don't imagine his money is easy to get simply because he has plenty of it.
E. W. Howe
Image
Financial sense is knowing that certain men will promise to do certain things, and fail.
E. W. Howe
Image
Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom wait until they have been married longer.
E. W. Howe
Image
At first a woman doesn't want anything but a husband, but as soon as gets one, she wants everything else in the world.
E. W. Howe
Image
A poem is no place for an idea.
E. W. Howe
Image
When a man tells you what people are saying about you, tell him what people are saying about him that will immediately take his mind off your troubles.
E. W. Howe
Image
Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him.
E. W. Howe
Image
A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.
E. W. Howe
Image
If a man takes one day off, it takes him about three days to get the harness fitted again.
E. W. Howe
Image
There must be some good in the cocktail party to account for its immense vogue among otherwise sane people.
E. W. Howe
Image
A man who will not get scared on some occasions, lacks good sense.
E. W. Howe
Image
Men are a good deal better collectively than they are individually. Many a man will do that privately which he will denounce in a crowd.
E. W. Howe