All Edith Wharton Quotes
- He had known the love that is fed on caresses and feeds them; but this passion that was closer than his bones was not to… Bones
- And you'll sit beside me, and we'll look, not at visions, but at realities. Beside
- Habit is necessary. It is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one… Alive
- But I have sometimes thought that a woman's nature is like a great house full of rooms: there is the hall, through which everyone passes… Alone
- The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend! All
- The very good people did not convince me; I felt they'd never been tempted. But you knew; you understood; you felt the world outside tugging… All
- A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys. Acquire
- With a shiver of foreboding he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material and… Association
- Archer had always been inclined to think that chance and circumstance played a small part in shaping people's lots compared with their innate tendency to… Archer
- She gave so many reasons that I've forgotten them all. All
- Something he knew he had missed: the flower of life. But he thought of it now as a thing so unattainable and improbable that to… Been
- In every heart there should be one grief that is like a well in the desert. Desert
- ...and wondering where he had read that clever liars give details, but that the cleverest do not. Clever
- Selden and Lily stood still, accepting the unreality of the scene as a part of their own dream-like sensations. It would not have surprised them… Accepting
- It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness. Assume
- As he paid the hansom and followed his wife's long train into the house he took refuge in the comforting platitude that the first six… Adaptation
- ...It was one of the great livery-stableman's most masterly intuitions to have discovered that Americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than… Americans
- Every house is a mad-house at some time or another. Every House
- Who's 'they'? Why don't you all get together and be 'they' yourselves? All
- How I hate everything! Hate