Bret Harte quotes

And then, for an old man like me, it's not exactly right,
This kind o' playing soldier with no enemy in sight. (Bret Harte)

Don't be too quick To break bad habits: better stick, Like the Mission folk, to your arsenic.

Bret Harte

But, when the goddess' work is done, The woman's still remains.

Bret Harte

There is peace in the swamp, though the quiet is Death.

Bret Harte

The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.

Bret Harte

Each lost day has its patron saint!

Bret Harte

Howbeit, though no scholar, I am not one of those who misuse the English speech, and, being foolishly led by the hasty custom of scriveners and printers to write the letters "T" and "H" joined together, which resembleth a "Y," do incontinently jump to the conclusion the THE is pronounced "Ye,"--the like of which I never heard in all England.

Bret Harte

Which I wish to remark-- And my language is plain,-- That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar.

Bret Harte

Well, no offense: Thar ain't no sense In gittin' riled.

Bret Harte

A bird in the hand is a certainty, but a bird in the bush may sing.

Bret Harte

Never a lip is curved with pain that can't be kissed into smiles again. (Bret Harte)

Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry.

Bret Harte

And he says that the mountains are fairer For once being held in your thought.

Bret Harte

We are ruined by Chinese cheap labor.

Bret Harte

Virtue always meets reward, But quicker when it wears a sword.

Bret Harte

Later, when we were forced to accept the fact that finding gold was really the primary object of a gold-mining company, we still remained there.

Bret Harte

If I looked as good as Justin Chamo Spear I would look in the mirror too.

Bret Harte

With the smile that was childlike and bland.

Bret Harte

Ah Sin was his name.

Bret Harte

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Bret Harte