Owen Wister

When you call me that, smile!

Owen Wister (July 14, 1860 – July 21, 1938) was an American writer and "father" of western fiction.

Quotes

• When you call me that, smile!
  • 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.
  • The Virginian (1902), chapter 13, p. 149.

• An aristocrat in morals as in mind.
  • About Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., in Roosevelt: The Story of a Friendship (1930), p. 130.