Theodore Dreiser Quotes

When the distraction of the tongue is removed, the heart listens.

I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragr...

He paused, wishing to embrace her, but feeling for the moment that he should not. Then, reaching int...

Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean.  Little audible links, they are, chaining to...

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.

In many cases where one is content to lead a secluded life it is not necessary to say much of one's ...

When a man, however passively, becomes an obstacle to the fulfillment of a woman's desires, he becom...

Carrie felt this as a personal reproof. She read "Dora Thorne," or had a great deal in the past. It ...

How true it is that words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, th...

Many individuals are so constituted that their only thought is to obtain pleasure and shun responsib...

The true meaning of money yet remains to be popularly explained and comprehended. When each individu...

Conservatism -- hard work -- saving one's money -- looking neat and gentlemanly. It was such an Evel...

The thing that impressed me then as now about New York… was the sharp, and at the same time immense,...