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Edith Wharton Quotes
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Some things are best mended by a break (Edith Wharton Quotes)
Make ones center of life inside ones self, not selfishly or excludingly, but with a kind of unassailable serenity (Edith Wharton Quotes)
What’s the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose ‘em out (Edith Wharton Quotes)
There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when we were all feeding off their gold plate; not now! At present they have not only my sympathy but my preference. They are the last representatives of our native industries (Edith Wharton Quotes)
There was once a little girl who was so very intelligent that her parents feared that she would die. But an aged aunt, who had crossed the Atlantic in a sailing-vessel, said, ‘My dears, let her marry the first man she falls in love with, and she will make such a fool of herself that it will probably save her life (Edith Wharton Quotes)
Then stay with me a little longer,’ Madame Olenska said in a low tone, just touching his knee with her plumed fan. It was the lightest touch, but it thrilled him like a caress (Edith Wharton Quotes)
But after a moment a sense of waste and ruin overcame him. There they were, close together and safe and shut in; yet so chained to their separate destinies that they might as well been half the world apart (Edith Wharton Quotes)
Something he knew he had missed: the flower of life. But he thought of it now as a thing so unattainable and improbable that to have repined would have been like despairing because one had not drawn the first prize in a lottery (Edith Wharton Quotes)
Selden and Lily stood still, accepting the unreality of the scene as a part of their own dream-like sensations. It would not have surprised them to feel a summer breeze on their faces, or to see the lights among the boughs reduplicated in the arch of a starry sky. The strange solitude about them was no stranger than the sweetness of being alone in it together (Edith Wharton Quotes)
Who’s ‘they’? Why don’t you all get together and be ‘they’ yourselves? (Edith Wharton Quotes)
To have you here, you mean-in reach and yet out of reach? To meet you in this way, on the sly? It’s the very reverse of what I want (Edith Wharton Quotes)
Leisure, itself the creation of wealth, is incessantly engaged in transmuting wealth into beauty by secreting the surplus energy which flowers in great architecture, great painting and great literature. Only in the atmosphere thus engendered floats that impalpable dust of ideas which is the real culture. A colony of ants or bees will never create a Parthenon (Edith Wharton Quotes)
I begin to see what marriage is for. It’s to keep people away from each other. Sometimes I think that two people who love each other can be saved from madness only by the things that come between them - children, duties, visits, bores, relations - the things that protect married people from each other (Edith Wharton Quotes)
... even in houses commonly held to be ‘booky’ one finds, nine times out of ten, not a library but a book-dump (Edith Wharton Quotes)
One can remain alive ... if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity interested in big things and happy in small ways. (Edith Wharton Quotes)
Conservatives cherished it for being small and inconvenient, and thus keeping out the new people whom New York was beginning to dread and yet be drawn to (Edith Wharton Quotes)
There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there’s only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there’s no reason why you shouldn’t have a fairly good time. (Edith Wharton Quotes)
A sense of having been decoyed by some world-old conspiracy into this bondage of body and soul filled her with despair. If marriage was the slow life-long acquittal of a debt contracted in ignorance, then marriage was a crime against human nature. (Edith Wharton Quotes)
Yes, one gets over things. But there are certain memories one can’t bit on. (Edith Wharton Quotes)
...I have always lived on contrasts! To me the only death is monotony. Beware of monotony; it’s the mother of all the deadly sins. (Edith Wharton Quotes)
I wonder why rich people always grow fat I suppose it’s because there’s nothing to worry them. (Edith Wharton Quotes)
Women ought to be free - as free as we are,’ he declared, making a discovery of which he was too irritated to measure the terrific consequences. (Edith Wharton Quotes)
He plunged out into the winter night bursting with the belated eloquence of the inarticulate (Edith Wharton Quotes)
A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys (Edith Wharton Quotes)
An education is like a crumbling building that needs constant upkeep with repairs and additions (Edith Wharton Quotes)
In all the arts abundance seems to be one of the surest signs of vocation (Edith Wharton Quotes)
One cares so little for the style in which one’s praises are written (Edith Wharton Quotes)
One of the first obligations of art is to make all useful things beautiful (Edith Wharton Quotes)
Life is made up of compromises (Edith Wharton Quotes)
Traditions that have lost their meaning are the hardest of all to destroy (Edith Wharton Quotes)