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Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes

Total quotes: 12
“We never know how we love til we try to unlove.”
— Harriet Beecher Stowe, The Minister's Wooing
Tagged: Love, Falling Out Of Love, Heart Break, Knowing love
“In the old times, women did not get their lives written, though I don't doubt many of them were much better worth writing than the men's.”
— Harriet Beecher Stowe, The Pearl of Orr's Island A Story of the Coast of Maine
Tagged: Women, Writing, Value, Life
“Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that, for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews like steel, so that the weak become so mighty.”
— Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin
Tagged: Sublime, Mind, Dominion, strength
“Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear.”
— Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin
Tagged: Blood, Cruelty, Truth
“Perhaps you laugh too, dear reader; but you know humanity comes out in a variety of strange forms now-a-days, and there is no end to the odd things that humane people will say and do.”
— Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin
Tagged: laugh, humanity, odd, Humane
“When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.’”
— Harriet Beecher Stowe, 10 Powerful Suicide Prevention Quotes
Tagged: Don't Give Up, Waiting For The Tide To Turn, perseverance, Holding On
“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, Uncle Tom's Cabin
Tagged: Youth, Old Women, Age
“Treat 'em like dogs, and you'll have dogs' works and dogs' actions. Treat 'em like men, and you'll have men's works.”
— Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin
Tagged: Treatment, manhood
“All men are free and equal, in the grave.”
— Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin
Tagged: Freedom, Equality, Death
“The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.
I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place, because, such as it is, it is better than nothing.”
— Harriet Beecher Stowe, Letter to William Lloyd Garrison
Tagged: Truth, Patience, Inquiry, Faith
“The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.”
— Harriet Beecher Stowe, The Pearl of Orr's Island A Story of the Coast of Maine
Tagged: Truth, kindness, Gift
“Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good.”
— Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin
Tagged: Mind, Sorrow, Good Actions
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