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Time Quotes by Edith Wharton
- There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when we were all…
- If I could have made the change sooner I daresay I should never have given a thought to the literary delights of Paris or London;…
- I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.
- 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…
- If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
- Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
- There is someone I must say goodbye to. Oh, not you - we are sure to see each other again - but the Lily Bart…
- Each time you happen to me all over again.
- Yes, you have been away a very long time.' 'Oh, centuries and centuries; so long,' she said, 'that I'm sure I'm dead and buried and…
- 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…
- Every house is a mad-house at some time or another.
- There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness.…
- If we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.
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