Top 22 Quotes by Stephen Vincent Benet

About Stephen Vincent Benet

These are some quotes by American author Stephen Vincent Benet Poet, who lived between July 22, 1898 and March 13, 1943.

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Stephen Vincent Benet

I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp names that never get fat.

I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp names that never get fat.

Stephen Vincent Benet

A man with a mouth like a mastiff, a brow like a mountain, and eyes like burning antracite - that was Dan'l Webster in his prime.

A man with a mouth like a mastiff, a brow like a mountain, and eyes like burning antracite - that was Dan'l Webster in his prime.

Stephen Vincent Benet

We cannot be a house divided - divided in will, divided in interest, divided in soul. We cannot be a house divided and live.

We cannot be a house divided - divided in will, divided in interest, divided in soul. We cannot be a house divided and live.

Stephen Vincent Benet

Trouble with women. Can't do any art and be married if you're in love with your wife.

Trouble with women. Can't do any art and be married if you're in love with your wife.

Stephen Vincent Benet

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet

You work hard, and you'll rise. But, if you've got any foolish notions, just knock them on the head and forget them.

You work hard, and you'll rise. But, if you've got any foolish notions, just knock them on the head and forget them.

Stephen Vincent Benet

There are many trials that seem hard to bear at first which prove true blessings later when we see of what false materials they were first composed.

There are many trials that seem hard to bear at first which prove true blessings later when we see of what false materials they were first composed.

Stephen Vincent Benet

We can no longer take our own way of life for granted - we know that it may be challenged. And we know this, too - and know it ever more deeply - we know that freedom and democracy are not just big words mouthed by orators but the rain and the wind and the sun, the air and the light by which we breathe and live.

Stephen Vincent Benet

You can't depend on the kind of folks people think they are - you've got to go by what they do. And I wouldn't give much for a man that some folks hadn't thought was a fool, in his time.

You can't depend on the kind of folks people think they are - you've got to go by what they do. And I wouldn't give much for a man that some folks hadn't thought was a fool, in his time.

Stephen Vincent Benet

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