Heart Quotes by Edith Wharton

She would not have put herself out so much to say so little.

— Edith Wharton

Blessed are the pure in heart for they have so many more things to talk about.

— Edith Wharton

“She knew herself by heart too, and was sick of the old story.”

— Edith Wharton

In every heart there should be one grief that is like a well in the desert.

— Edith Wharton

She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making.

— Edith Wharton

She was not accustomed to taste the joys of solitude except in company.

— Edith Wharton

“My little old dog a heart-beat at my feet”

— Edith Wharton

“the things that she took for granted gave the measure of those she had rebelled against.”

— Edith Wharton

“What she craved and really felt herself entitled to was a situation in which the noblest attitude should also be the easiest.”

— Edith Wharton

Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.

— Edith Wharton

“Her entrances were always triumphs; but they had no sequel. As soon as people began to talk they ceased to see her.”

— Edith Wharton

Her mind was an hotel where facts came and went like transient lodgers, without leaving their address behind, and frequently without paying…

— Edith Wharton

“Lizzy Elmsworth was not a good-tempered girl, but she was too intelligent to let her temper interfere with her opportunities.”

— Edith Wharton

“She had taken everything else from him, and now she meant to take the one thing that made up for it all.”

— Edith Wharton

“Her whole being dilated in an atmosphere of luxury. It was the background she required, the only climate she could breathe in.”

— Edith Wharton

She was very near hating him now; yet the sound of his voice, the way the light fell on his thin, dark…

— Edith Wharton

“Xingu!" she scoffed. "Why, it was the fact of our knowing so much more about it than she did—unprepared though we were—that…

— Edith Wharton

“It was characteristic of her that she remembered her failures as keenly as her triumphs, and that the passionate desire to obliterate,…

— Edith Wharton

“There was money enough... but she asked so much of life, in ways so complex and immaterial. He thought of her as…

— Edith Wharton

“Yes - it was happiness she still wanted, and the glimpse she had caught of it made everything else of no account.…

— Edith Wharton

“During the interval between her divorce and her remarriage she had learned what things cost, but not how to do without them;…

— Edith Wharton

“She had given him all she had - but what was it compared to the other gifts life held for him? She…

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“She yearned to be admired, and feared to be insulted; and yet seemed tragically conscious that she was destined to miss both…

— Edith Wharton

“But she could not breathe long on the heights; there had been nothing in her training to develop any continuity of moral…

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“As she lay there she said to herself that there was something she must tell Selden, some word she had found that…

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“She had everything she wanted, but she still felt, at times, that there were other things she might want if she knew…

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“Undine was fiercely independent and yet passionately imitative. She wanted to surprise every one by her dash and originality, but she could…

— Edith Wharton

“She has been better educated than her sister, and has a more receptive mind. It seems as though someone had sown in…

— Edith Wharton

“Undine was fiercely independent and yet passionately imitative. She wanted to surprise every one by her dash and originality, but she could…

— Edith Wharton

The difference is that these young people take it for granted that they're going to get whatever they want, and that we…

— Edith Wharton

“It was difficult to define her beyond saying that she seemed to exist only as a hostess, not so much from any…

— Edith Wharton

...though she had not had the strength to shake off the spell that bound her to him she had lost all spontaneity…

— Edith Wharton

“She had found out that she had given herself to the exclusive and the dowdy when the future belonged to the showy…

— Edith Wharton

“Charity, till then, had been conscious only of a vague self-disgust and a frightening physical distress; now, of a sudden, there came…

— Edith Wharton

“She herself had grown up without any one spot of earth being dearer than another: there was no center of earth pieties,…

— Edith Wharton

“What could he and she really know of each other, since it was his duty, as a "decent" fellow, to conceal his…

— Edith Wharton

“She knew that Virginia's survey of the world was limited to people, the clothes they wore, and the carriages they drove in.…

— Edith Wharton

“But hitherto she had been like some young captive brought up in a windowless palace whose painted walls she takes for the…

— Edith Wharton

“She wanted to surprise everyone by her dash and originality, but she could not help modeling herself on the last person she…

— Edith Wharton