The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend! — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out. — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
I wonder why rich people always grow fat I suppose it's because there's nothing to worry them. — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Archer had always been inclined to think that chance and circumstance played a small part in shaping people's lots compared with their… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Almost everybody in the neighborhood had troubles, frankly localized and specified; but only the chosen had complications. To have them was in… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
People struggled on for years with 'troubles,' but they almost always succumbed to 'complications. — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Presently he rose and approached the case before which she stood. Its glass shelves were crowded with small broken objects —hardly recognisable… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
The very good people did not convince me; I felt they'd never been tempted. But you knew; you understood; you felt the… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
The real marriage of true minds is for any two people to possess a sense of humor or irony pitched in exactly… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
The very good people didn't convince me; I felt they'd never been tempted. But you knew; you understood; you had felt the… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
It was the old New York way...the way people who dreaded scandal more than disease, who placed decency above courage, and who… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Wherein lies a poet's claim to originality? That he invents his incidents? No. That he was present when his episodes had their… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Yes, the Gorgon has dried your tears.' Well, she has opened my eyes too; it's a delusion to say she blinds people.… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“Yes, the Gorgon has dried your tears,” he said. “Well, she opened my eyes too; it's a delusion to say that she… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
And all the while, I suppose," he thought, "real people were living somewhere, and real things happening to them ... — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
I begin to see what marriage is for. It's to keep people away from each other. Sometimes I think that two people… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Think what stupid things the people must have done with their money who say they're 'happier without'. — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are. — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
...every literature, in its main lines, reflects the chief characteristics of the people for whom, and about whom, it is written. — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“Suddenly the air was full of that deep clangor of bells which periodically covers Rome with a roof of silver.” — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“Untrained human nature was not frank and innocent; it was full of the twists and defences of an instinctive guile. And he felt himself… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“High Pasture Come up--come up: in the dim vale below The autumn mist muffles the fading trees, But on this keen hill-pasture, though the… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“Two ways to be a light for all, is to be a flaming candle or the mirror that reflects it” — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“... no treasure-house of Atreus was ever as rich as a well-stored memory.” — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“...the endless labour of rolling human stupidity up the steep hill of understanding.” — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material and social interests held together… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend! — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
With a shiver of foreboding he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when we were… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
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