41 Quotes by Owen Wister

I ain't sure whether you're crazy or not," said he to the man in the lookin-glass. "I ain't never been sure.

Nothing's queer," stated the Virginian, "except marriage and lightning. Them two occurrences can still give me a sensation of surprise.

For out of the eyes of every stranger looks either a friend or an enemy, waiting to be known.

Many an act that man does is right or wrong according to the time and place which form, so to speak, its context; strip it of its surrounding circumstances, and you tear away its meaning. Gentlemen reformers, beware of this common practice of yours! Beware of calling an act evil on Tuesday because that same act was evil on Monday!

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

Dr. MacBride had a manner of saying "pardon me," which rendered forgiveness well-nigh impossible.

We all know what birds of a feather do. And it may be safely surmised that if a bird of any particular feather has been for a long while unable to see other birds of its kind, it will flock with them all the more assiduously when they happen to alight in its vicinity.

In no company had I ever felt so much an outsider. Yet I liked the company, and wished that it would like me.

When you can't have what you choose, you just choose what you have.