Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
No ornament of a house can compare with books they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Age: 85 †
Born: 1811
Born: June 14
Died: 1896
Died: July 1
Author
Novelist
Poet
Short Story Writer
Writer
Litchfield (town)
Connecticut
Christopher Crowfield
Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe
Enrieta Elizabeth Beecher Stowe
Harriet Elizabeth Beecher
Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe
Rooms
Books
Company
Reading
Ornament
House
Ornaments
Book
Compare
Even
Constant
Room
More quotes by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Women's Day Women are the real architects of society.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
God washes the eyes by tears unil they can behold the invisible land where tears shall come no more.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
For, so inconsistent is human nature, especially in the ideal, that not to undertake a thing at all seems better than to undertake and come short.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
At last I have come into a dreamland.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Come down here once, and use your eyes, and you will know more than we can teach you.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Sweet souls around us watch us still, press nearer to our side Into our thoughts, into our prayers, with gentle helpings glide.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Rome is an astonishment!
Harriet Beecher Stowe
...it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
O, because I have had only that kind of benevolence which consists in lying on a sofa, and cursing the church and clergy for not being martyrs and confessors. One can see, you know, very easily, how others ought to be martyrs.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
There is a great life-giving, warming power called Love, which exists in human hearts dumb and unseen, but which has no real life, no warming power, till set free by expression.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
there is no independence and pertinacity of opinion like that of these seemingly soft, quiet creatures, whom it is so easy to silence, and so difficult to convince.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
There is more done with pens than with swords.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
There are two classes of human beings in this world: one class seem made to give love, and the other to take it.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Care and labor are as much correlated to human existence as shadow is to light.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The world has been busy for some centuries in shutting and locking every door through which a woman could step into wealth, except the door of marriage.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.
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.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
