Top 250 Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “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

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2. “Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

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3. “The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.”

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

4. “Women’s Day Women are the real architects of society.”

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

5. “A woman’s health is her capital.”

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

6. “The longest day must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.”

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

7. “The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.”

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

8. “Human nature is above all things lazy.”

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

9. “If women want any rights they had better take them, and say nothing about it.”

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

10. “Prayer is a long rope with a strong hold.”

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

11. “Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.”

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

12. “It’s a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.”

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

13. “At last I have come into a dreamland...”

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

14. “I wrote what I did because as a woman, as a mother, I was oppressed and broken-hearted with the sorrows and injustice I saw, because as a Christian I felt the dishonor to Christianity – because as a lover of my county, I trembled at the coming day of wrath.”

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

15. “God washes the eyes by tears unil they can behold the invisible land where tears shall come no more.”

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

16. “Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.”

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

17. “The longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.”

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

18. “Gems, in fact, are a species of mineral flowers; they are the blossoms of the dark, hard mine; and what they want in perfume, they make up in durability.”

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

19. “There is more done with pens than with swords.”

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

20. “All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.”

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

21. “Once in an age God sends to some of us a friend who loves in us, not a false-imagining, an unreal character, but looking through the rubbish of our imperfections, loves in us the divine ideal of our nature, – loves, not the man that we are, but the angel that we may be.”

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

22. “The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.”

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

23. “It is no merit in the sorrowful that they weep, or to the oppressed and smothering that they gasp and struggle, not to me, that I must speak for the oppressed – who cannot speak for themselves.”

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

24. “Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.”

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

25. “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

26. “Praise is sunshine; it warms, it inspires, it promotes growth; blame and rebuke are rain and hail; they beat down and bedraggle, even though they may at times be necessary.”

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

27. “There is no phase of the Italian mind that has not found expression in its music.”

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

28. “People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first. Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.”

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

29. “The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.”

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

30. “To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.”

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

31. “I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.”

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

32. “True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love’s sake have in them a poetry that is immortal.”

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

33. “Half the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly and in a spirit of love.”

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

34. “I long to put the experience of fifty years at once into your young lives, to give you at once the key of that treasure chamber every gem of which has cost me tears and struggles and prayers, but you must work for these inward treasures yourself.”

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

35. “Sensitive people never like the fatigue of justifying their instincts.”

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

36. “Self respect is impossible without liberty...”

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

37. “The literature of a people must so ring from the sense of its nationality; and nationality is impossible without self-respect, and self-respect is impossible without liberty.”

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

38. “God has always been to me not so much like a father as like a dear and tender mother.”

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

39. “To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.”

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

40. “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

41. “Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!”

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

42. “No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man. Life and death to him are haunted grounds, filled with goblin forms of vague and shadowy dread.”

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

43. “Many a humble soul will be amazed to find that the seed it sowed in weakness, in the dust of daily life, has blossomed into immortal flowers under the eye of the Lord.”

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

44. “I am one of the sort that lives by throwing stones at other people’s glass houses, but I never mean to put up one for them to stone.”

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

45. “Midnight, – strange mystic hour, – when the veil between the frail present and the eternal future grows thin.”

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

46. “Witness, eternal God! Oh, witness that, from this hour, I will do what one man can to drive out this curse of slavery from my land!”

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

47. “His conversation was in free and easy defiance of Murray’s Grammar, and was garnished at convenient intervals with various profane expressions, which not even the desire to be graphic in our account shall induce us to transcribe.”

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

48. “Friends are discovered rather than made; there are people who are in their own nature friends, only they don’t know each other; but certain things, like poetry, music, and paintings are like the Freemason’s sign, they reveal the initiated to each other.”

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

49. “The power of fictitious writing, for good as well as evil is a thing which ought most seriously to be reflected on. No one can fail to see that in our day it is becoming a very great agency.”

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

50. “There are in this world blessed souls, whose sorrows all spring up into joys for others; whose earthly hopes, laid in the grave with many tears, are the seed from which spring healing flowers and balm for the desolate and the distressed.”

— Harriet Beecher Stowe