All Edith Wharton Quotes
- There is someone I must say goodbye to. Oh, not you - we are sure to see each other again - but the Lily Bart… All
- Through this atmosphere of torrid splendor moved wan beings as richly upholstered as the furniture, beings without definite pursuits or permanent relations, who drifted on… Atmosphere
- They belonged to that vast group of human automata who go through life without neglecting to perform a single one of the gestures executed by… Automata
- She said she knew we were safe with you, and always would be, because once, when she asked you to, you'd given up the thing… Archer
- Then stay with me a little longer,' Madame Olenska said in a low tone, just touching his knee with her plumed fan. It was the… Caress
- Yes, the Gorgon has dried your tears.' Well, she has opened my eyes too; it's a delusion to say she blinds people. What she does… Blessed
- His whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled before him; and passing down its endless emptiness he saw the dwindling figure of a man to… Down
- It was too late for happiness - but not too late to be helped by the thought of what I had missed. That is all… All
- There's nothing grimmer than the tragedy that wears a comic mask. Comic
- But marriage is one long sacrifice.... Chapter 21, Medora Manson speaking to Newland Archer Archer
- ...I have always lived on contrasts! To me the only death is monotony. Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins. All
- Most timidities have such secret compensations and Miss Bart was discerning enough to know that the inner vanity is generally in proportion to the outer… Bart
- Her mind was an hotel where facts came and went like transient lodgers, without leaving their address behind, and frequently without paying for their board. Address
- It was the old New York way...the way people who dreaded scandal more than disease, who placed decency above courage, and who considered that nothing… Bred
- The immense accretion of flesh which had descended on her in middle life like a flood of lava on a doomed city had changed her… Accepted
- The visible world is a daily miracle for those who have eyes and ears; and I still warm hands thankfully at the old fire, though… Daily
- An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into… Artist
- Women ought to be free - as free as we are,' he declared, making a discovery of which he was too irritated to measure the… Consequence
- To know when to be generous and when firm—that is wisdom. Firm
- The real marriage of true minds is for any two people to possess a sense of humor or irony pitched in exactly the same key,… Any