Edith Wharton Quotes - Page 8

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• No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity.

  Edith Wharton

  Vanity, Weight, Nests

  Edith Wharton (2015). “The House of Mirth”, p.112, Xist Publishing

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• The moment my eyes fell on him, I was content.

  Edith Wharton

  Love, Crush, Eye

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

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• I can't love you unless I give you up.

  Edith Wharton

  Love You, Giving, I Can

  Edith Wharton (2015). “The Age of Innocence”, p.148, Booklassic

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• To visit Morocco is still like turning the pages of some illuminated Persian manuscript all embroidered with bright shapes and subtle lines.

  Edith Wharton

  Morocco, Shapes, Lines

  Edith Wharton (2004). “In Morocco”, p.16, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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• People struggled on for years with 'troubles,' but they almost always succumbed to 'complications.

  Edith Wharton

  Years, People, Trouble

  Ethan Frome ch. 7 (1911)

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• Think what stupid things the people must have done with their money who say they're 'happier without'.

  Edith Wharton

  Stupid, Thinking, People

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

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• Until the raw ingredients of a pudding make a pudding, I shall never believe that the raw material of sensation and thought can make a work of art without the cook's intervening.

  Edith Wharton

  Art, Believe, Pudding

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• The short story, free from the longuers of the novel is also exempt from the novel's conclusiveness--too often forced and false: it may thus more nearly than the novel approach aesthetic and moral truth.

  Edith Wharton

  Stories, May, Moral

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• The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.

  Edith Wharton

  Duty, Worst

  The Age of Innocence ch. 34 (1920)

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• And I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, & consequently suggests more tugging, & pain, & diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

  Edith Wharton

  Marriage, Pain, Ties

  "The letters of Edith Wharton".

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• In the dissolution of sentimental partnerships it is seldom that both associates are able to withdraw their funds at the same time.

  Edith Wharton

  Divorce, Able, Sentimental

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2333, Delphi Classics

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• Is there nowhere in an American house where one may be by one's self?

  Edith Wharton

  Reflection, Self, House

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2044, Delphi Classics

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• He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.

  Edith Wharton

  Memories, Regret, Lifetime

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2192, Delphi Classics

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• As he paid the hansom and followed his wife's long train into the house he took refuge in the comforting platitude that the first six months were always the most difficult in marriage. 'After that I suppose we shall have pretty nearly finished rubbing off each other’s angles,' he reflected; but the worst of it was that May's pressure was already bearing on the very angles whose sharpness he most wanted to keep

  Edith Wharton

  Wife, Long, House

  Edith Wharton (2006). “The Age of Innocence”, p.148, OUP Oxford

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• It is so easy for a woman to become what the man she loves believes her to be

  Edith Wharton

  Believe, Men, Easy

  Edith Wharton (2016). “The House of Mirth: Edith Wharton”, p.285, VM eBooks

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• He had known the love that is fed on caresses and feeds them; but this passion that was closer than his bones was not to be superficially satisfied.

  Edith Wharton

  Passion, Bones, Feds

  Edith Wharton (2015). “The Age of Innocence”, p.187, Xist Publishing

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• My first few weeks in America are always miserable, because the tastes I am cursed with are all of a kind that cannot be gratified here, and I am not enough in sympathy with our gross public to make up for the lack on the aesthetic side. One's friends are delightful; but we are none of us Americans, we don't think or feel as the Americans do, we are the wretched exotics produced in a European glass-house, the most displaced and useless class on earth!

  Edith Wharton

  Thinking, Class, America

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• “Yes, the Gorgon has dried your tears,” he said. “Well, she opened my eyes too; it's a delusion to say that she blinds people. What she does is just the contrary — she fastens their eyelids open, so that they're never again in the blessed darkness.”

  Edith Wharton

  Blessed, Eye, People

  "Literary Love: 5 Wild and Wanton Classics".

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• Presently he rose and approached the case before which she stood. Its glass shelves were crowded with small broken objects —hardly recognisable domestic utensils, ornaments and personal trifles — made of glass, of clay, of discoloured bronze and other time-blurred substances.
  'It seems cruel,' she said, 'that after a while nothing matters... any more than these little things, that used to be necessary and important to forgotten people, and now have to be guessed at under a magnifying glass and labeled: "Use unknown".'

  Edith Wharton

  Time, Glasses, People

  "The Age of Innocence".

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• ...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

  Mother, Sin, Monotony

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Selected Works: Edith Wharton's Selected Works - The House of Mirth, Summer, The Age of Innocence, The Fruit of the Tree, Ethan Frome, The Touchstone”, p.188, Lulu Press, Inc

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• 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

  Touching, Fans, Littles

  Edith Wharton (2012). “The Age of Innocence”, p.42, Courier Corporation

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• It was the old New York way...the way people who dreaded scandal more than disease, who placed decency above courage, and who considered that nothing was more ill-bred than "scenes", except those who gave rise to them.

  Edith Wharton

  New York, People, Disease

  The Age of Innocence ch. 33 (1920)

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• In the summer New York was the only place in which one could escape from New Yorkers.

  Edith Wharton

  Summer, New York, New Yorkers

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.1665, Delphi Classics

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• And all the while, I suppose," he thought, "real people were living somewhere, and real things happening to them.

  Edith Wharton

  Real, People, Happenings

  Edith Wharton (2015). “Age of Innocence”, p.58, Oxford University Press

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• 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

  Mean, Want, Way

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2162, Delphi Classics

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