Edith Wharton Quotes - Page 4

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• How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be American before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, and having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries?

  Edith Wharton

  Country, Patriotic, Thinking

  Edith Wharton, Richard Warrington Baldwin Lewis, Nancy Lewis (1988). “The letters of Edith Wharton”, Macmillan Reference USA

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• A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.

  Edith Wharton

  New York, Divorce, Literature

  Edith Wharton (2011). “The New York Stories of Edith Wharton”, p.119, New York Review of Books

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• It was harder to drown at sunrise than in darkness.

  Edith Wharton

  Darkness, Sunrise, Harder

  Edith Wharton (2016). “The House of Mirth: Edith Wharton”, p.145, VM eBooks

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• She felt a stealing sense of fatigue as she walked; the sparkle had died out of her, and the taste of life was stale on her lips. She hardly knew what she had been seeking, or why the failure to find it had so blotted the light from her sky: she was only aware of a vague sense of failure, of an inner isolation deeper than the loneliness about her.

  Edith Wharton

  Loneliness, Sky, Light

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.495, Delphi Classics

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• How I hate everything!

  Edith Wharton

  Hate, I Hate

  Edith Wharton (2006). “Summer”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys.

  Edith Wharton

  Dramatic, Significance, Acquire

  Edith Wharton, Janet Beer (2002). “The House of Mirth”, p.15, Wordsworth Editions

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• We live in our own souls as in an unmapped region, a few acres of which we have cleared for our habitation; while of the nature of those nearest us we know but the boundaries that march with ours.

  Edith Wharton

  Soul, Acres, March

  Edith Wharton (2016). “The Touchstone: American Literature”, p.36, VM eBooks

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• My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet.

  Edith Wharton

  Love, Dog, Animal

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• Yes, one gets over things. But there are certain memories one can't bit on.

  Edith Wharton

  Memories, Life And Love, Certain

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• You thought I was a lovelorn mistress; and I was only an expensive prostitute.

  Edith Wharton

  Mistress, Expensive

  "Old New York".

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• The early mist had vanished and the fields lay like a silver shield under the sun. It was one of the days when the glitter of winter shines through a pale haze of spring.

  Edith Wharton

  Spring, Winter, Shining

  Edith Wharton (2016). “Ethan Frome”, p.82, First Avenue Editions

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• She had been bored all afternoon by Percy Gryce... but she could not ignore him on the morrow, she must follow up her success, must submit to more boredom, must be ready with fresh compliances and adaptibilities, and all on the bare chance that he might ultimately decide to do her the honour of boring her for life.

  Edith Wharton

  Boredom, Afternoon, Might

  Edith Wharton (2013). “House of Mirth and the Age of Innocence”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• They are all alike you know. They hold their tongues for years and you think you're safe, but when the opportunity comes they remember everything.

  Edith Wharton

  Opportunity, Thinking, Remembers Everything

  Edith Wharton (2016). “The House of Mirth: Edith Wharton”, p.70, VM eBooks

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• Society soon grows used to any state of things which is imposed upon it without explanation.

  Edith Wharton

  Society, Used, States

  Edith Wharton (2008). “Old New York”, p.227, Simon and Schuster

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• I discovered early that crying makes my nose red, and the knowledge has helped me through several painful episodes.

  Edith Wharton

  Noses, Red, Cry

  Edith Wharton (2008). “The House of Mirth (EasyRead Large Bold Edition)”, p.379, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of her life.

  Edith Wharton

  Solitude, Littles, Noise

  Edith Wharton (2013). “House of Mirth and the Age of Innocence”, p.218, Simon and Schuster

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• She seemed to melt against him in her terror, and he caught her in his arms, held her fast there, felt her lashes beat his cheek like netted butterflies.

  Edith Wharton

  Butterfly, Kissing, Arms

  Edith Wharton, Barbara Anne White (1995). “Wharton's New England: Seven Stories and Ethan Frome”, p.152, UPNE

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• Her vivid smile was like a light held up to dazzle me.

  Edith Wharton

  Smile, Light, Vivid

  Edith Wharton (2015). “Edith Wharton: Collected Stories Vol. 1 1891-1910”, p.377, Library of America

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• there are lots of ways of answering a letter - and writing doesn't happen to be mine.

  Edith Wharton

  Writing, Letters, Way

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2334, Delphi Classics

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• Dialogue in fiction should be reserved for the culminating moments and regarded as the spray into which the great wave of narrative breaks in curving towards the watcher on the shore.

  Edith Wharton

  Fiction, Narrative, Moments

  Edith Wharton (2014). “The Writing of Fiction”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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• She threw back her head with a laugh that made her chins ripple like little waves.

  Edith Wharton

  Laughing, Littles, Wave

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.1980, Delphi Classics

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• To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?

  Edith Wharton

  Looks, Able, Faces

  Edith Wharton (2014). “Edith Wharton The Dover Reader”, p.328, Courier Corporation

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• There's nothing grimmer than the tragedy that wears a comic mask.

  Edith Wharton

  Tragedy, Mask, Comic

  Edith Wharton (2013). “House of Mirth and the Age of Innocence”, p.176, Simon and Schuster

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• Genius is of small use to a woman who does not know how to do her hair.

  Edith Wharton

  Women, Hair, Doe

  Edith Wharton (2007). “Ethan Frome and Other Short Fiction”, p.14, Bantam Classics

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• As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch.

  Edith Wharton

  Pain, Healing, Compassion

  Edith Wharton (2016). “The House of Mirth: Edith Wharton”, p.134, VM eBooks

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