“She had everything she wanted, but she still felt, at times, that there were other things she might want if she knew… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
To have you here, you mean-in reach and yet out of reach? To meet you in this way, on the sly? It's… — 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 swear I only want to hear about you, to know what you've been doing. It's a hundred years since we've met-it… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
I want to put my hand out and touch you. I want to do for you and care for you. I want… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Don't you ever mind," she asked suddenly, "not being rich enough to buy all the books you want? — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
I don't know that I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want some one who made it… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“I want - I want somehow to get away with you into a world where words like that -categories like that- won't… — 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
...It was one of the great livery-stableman's most masterly intuitions to have discovered that Americans want to get away from amusement even… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
I believe I know the only cure, which is to make one’s center of life inside of one’s self, not selfishly or… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
I couldn't have spoken like this yesterday, because when we've been apart, and I'm looking forward to seeing you, every thought is… — 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
“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
“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
“Two ways to be a light for all, is to be a flaming candle or the mirror that reflects it” — Edith Wharton Copy Share
“... no treasure-house of Atreus was ever as rich as a well-stored memory.” — Edith Wharton Copy Share
“...the endless labour of rolling human stupidity up the steep hill of understanding.” — Edith Wharton Copy Share
“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
The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend! — Edith Wharton Copy Share
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
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
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
“But in a few years more perhaps there may be; for, deep within us as the ghost instinct lurks, I seem to see it… — Edith Wharton Copy Share
Dialogue in fiction should be reserved for the culminating moments and regarded as the spray into which the great wave of narrative breaks in… — Edith Wharton Copy Share
“These Americans, under their forthcoming manner, their surface-gush, as some might call it, have an odd reticence about what goes on underneath.” — Edith Wharton Copy Share
