Owen Wister Quotes

Owen Wister was an American writer, historian and "father" of western fiction. He is best remembered for writing The Virginian and a biography of American Civil War Lt. Gen. and 18th President Ulysses S. Grant.

✵ 14. July 1860 – 21. July 1938
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Famous Owen Wister Quotes

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

Owen Wister

Source: The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains

“When you call me that, smile!”

Owen Wister book The Virginian

The Virginian (1902), pp. 29–30. Reported in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989), as presumably the forerunner of "Smile when you say that, partner".

“When yu’ can’t have what you choose, yu’ just choose what you have.”

Owen Wister book The Virginian

The Virginian (1902), chapter 13, p. 149.

“An aristocrat in morals as in mind.”

Owen Wister

About Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., in Roosevelt: The Story of a Friendship (1930), p. 130.

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