Long Quotes by Edith Wharton

“Marriage is one long sacrifice.”

— Edith Wharton

When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't…

— Edith Wharton

But marriage is one long sacrifice… Chapter 21, Medora Manson speaking to Newland Archer

— Edith Wharton

It's you who are telling me; opening my eyes to things I'd looked at so long that I'd ceased to see them.

— Edith Wharton

Their long years together had shown him that it did not so much matter if marriage was a dull duty, as long…

— Edith Wharton

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day. I loved light ever, light in eye and brain No tapers mirrored in…

— Edith Wharton

Yes, you have been away a very long time.' 'Oh, centuries and centuries; so long,' she said, 'that I'm sure I'm dead…

— Edith Wharton

There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and…

— Edith Wharton

Habit is necessary. It is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought…

— Edith Wharton

As he paid the hansom and followed his wife's long train into the house he took refuge in the comforting platitude that…

— Edith Wharton

And he felt himself oppressed by this creation of factitious purity, so cunningly manufactured by a conspiracy of mothers and aunts and…

— Edith Wharton

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision. That new, that personal, vision is attained only by…

— Edith Wharton