In our hurried world too little value is attached to the part of the connoisseur and dilettante. — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
The visible world is a daily miracle for those who have eyes and ears; and I still warm hands thankfully at the… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
... how I understand that love of living, of being in this wonderful, astounding world even if one can look at it… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
In reality they all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even… — 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 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
Apart from the pleasure of looking at her and listening to her-of enjoying in her what others less discriminatingly but as liberally… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
It was easy enough to despise the world, but decidedly difficult to find any other habitable region. — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
He simply felt that if he could carry away the vision of the spot of earth she walked on, and the way… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
But after a moment a sense of waste and ruin overcame him. There they were, close together and safe and shut in;… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
[B]ut he had lived in a world in which, as he said, no one who loved ideas need hunger mentally. — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
whatever the uses of a room, they are seriously interfered with if it be not preserved as a world by itself. — 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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