Quotes by Stephen Vincent Benet

Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.
– Stephen Vincent Benet
I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp, gaunt names that never get fat.
– Stephen Vincent Benet
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
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
– Stephen Vincent Benet
Dreaming men are haunted men.
– Stephen Vincent Benet