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One Quotes by Edith Wharton
- Yes, one gets over things. But there are certain memories one can't bit on.
- The only thing to do is to hug one's friends tight and do one's job.
- One can remain alive ... if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity interested in big things and happy in small ways.
- I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and…
- In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.
- Is there nowhere in an American house where one may be by one's self?
- The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm in form as well as in sound, is one of the most inveterate of human instincts.
- The other producer of old age is habit: the deathly process of doing the same thing in the same way at the same hour day…
- For hours she had lain in a kind of gentle torpor, not unlike that sweet lassitude which masters one in the hush of a midsummer…
- My first few weeks in America are always miserable, because the tastes I am cursed with are all of a kind that cannot be gratified…
- After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
- When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as…
- Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.
- The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.
- 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…
- ...In the summer New York was the only place in which one could escape from New Yorkers...
- There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an…
- [B]ut he had lived in a world in which, as he said, no one who loved ideas need hunger mentally.
- Staunch and faithful lovers that they are, they give back a hundred fold every sign of love that one ever gives them.
- 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…
- But marriage is one long sacrifice.... Chapter 21, Medora Manson speaking to Newland Archer
- One of the surprises of her unoccupied state was the discovery that time, when it is left to itself and no definite demands are made…
- 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…
- 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…
- The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!
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