Adam Quote by Owen Wister

“It was through the Declaration of Independence that we Americans acknowledged the eternal inequality of man. For by it we abolished a cut-and-dried aristocracy.…

— Owen Wister

I reckon some parsons have a right to tell yu' to be good. The bishop of this hyeh Territory has a right. But I'll…

— Owen Wister

“All America is divided into two classes - the quality and the equality. The latter will always recognize the former when mistaken for it.”

— Owen Wister

“Here in flesh and blood was a truth which I had long believed in words, but never met before. The creature we call a…

— Owen Wister

I thought there should in truth be heavy damages for malpractice on human souls.

— Owen Wister

“The cowboy has now gone to worlds invisible; the wind has blown away the white ashes of his campfires; but the empty sardine box…

— Owen Wister

But no earthly foot can step between a man and his destiny.

— Owen Wister

With a gun against my belly I... I always smile.

— Owen Wister

“Forgive my asking you to use your mind. It is a thing which no novelist should expect of his reader...”

— Owen Wister

“Providence makes use of instruments I'd not touch with a ten-foot pole.”

— Owen Wister

An aristocrat in morals as in mind.

— Owen Wister

“He possessed that quality in his profanity of not offending by it.”

— Owen Wister