All Edith Wharton Quotes
- ...though she had not had the strength to shake off the spell that bound her to him she had lost all spontaneity of feeling, and… All
- He bent and laid his lips on her hands, which were cold and lifeless. She drew them away, and he turned to the door, found… Belated
- Poetry and art are the breath of life to her. Art
- Archer was too intelligent to think that a young woman like Ellen Olenska would necessarily recoil from everything that reminded her of her past. She… Archer
- I believe I know the only cure, which is to make one’s center of life inside of one’s self, not selfishly or excludingly, but with… All
- Set wide the window. Let me drink the day. Action
- The taste of the usual was like cinders in his mouth, and there were moments when he felt as if he were being buried alive… Alive
- She felt a stealing sense of fatigue as she walked; the sparkle had died out of her, and the taste of life was stale on… Aware
- And all the while, I suppose," he thought, "real people were living somewhere, and real things happening to them ... All
- He had married (as most young men did) because he had met a perfectly charming girl at the moment when a series of rather aimless… Adventure
- The difference is that these young people take it for granted that they're going to get whatever they want, and that we almost always took… Advance
- She wanted, passionately and persistently, two things which she believed should subsist together in any well-ordered life: amusement and respectability. Amusement
- Everything about her was warm and soft and scented; even the stains of her grief became her as raindrops do the beaten rose. Beaten
- Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of her… Addicted
- Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any. Any
- I want to put my hand out and touch you. I want to do for you and care for you. I want to be there… Care
- To have you here, you mean-in reach and yet out of reach? To meet you in this way, on the sly? It's the very reverse… Meet
- We shall hurt others less. Isn't it, after all, what you always wanted? All
- There was no use in trying to emancipate a wife who had not the dimmest notion that she was not free. Dimmest
- It is so easy for a woman to become what the man she loves believes her to be Believe