Quote by Edith Wharton Download Open image ““and he could only follow the shadowy pantomime of their silhouettes”” — Edith Wharton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“How could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?” — Plato Copy Share Image
“In the dark, he was nothing but a silhouette. He could have been anyone at all.” — Cecilia Vinesse Copy Share Image
“The shape of his head, the set of his shoulders are a pattern she could recognize and love out of a crowd of shadows.” — Josephine Humphreys Copy Share Image
“His thoughts were hemmed in. One can only draw curved lines on the terrestrial sphere which, as they extend, forever meet with themselves. At… — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
“In life you have always the choice to leave the shadowy places and head towards the illuminated locations!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“Her vision was going, but she could see him, the way people see clouds-beautiful, racing by, casting shadows.” — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“He would drift through the house in search of the coolest spot to read through the long summer afternoons that had a touch of… — Nadeem Aslam Copy Share Image
“This was his soul made flesh, the truth of him laid bare in the blazing sun, shorn of mystery and shadow.” — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
“They seemed to be locked behind built-in notions and no-nos, unaware of the mystery living through them or of the dance of illusion surrounding… — James Broughton Copy Share Image
“The aura of his soul. She’d seen them before when she’d guided the dead. But she’d never seen one quite like this, darkness and… — Eve Silver Copy Share Image
“Suddenly the air was full of that deep clangor of bells which periodically covers Rome with a roof of silver.” — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“Untrained human nature was not frank and innocent; it was full of the twists and defences of an instinctive guile. And he felt himself… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“High Pasture Come up--come up: in the dim vale below The autumn mist muffles the fading trees, But on this keen hill-pasture, though the… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“Two ways to be a light for all, is to be a flaming candle or the mirror that reflects it” — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“... no treasure-house of Atreus was ever as rich as a well-stored memory.” — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“...the endless labour of rolling human stupidity up the steep hill of understanding.” — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material and social interests held together… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend! — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
With a shiver of foreboding he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when we were… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
