Aunt Quote by Edith Wharton

“The young man was sincerely but placidly in love. He delighted in the radiant good looks of his betrothed, in her health, her horsemanship,…

— Edith Wharton

“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

He had put his hand up in class, a declaration of existence, a claim that he knew something. And that was forbidden to him.…

— John Ajvide Lindqvist

He had a sense of his dignity, which was of the most exquisite nature. He could detect a design upon it when nobody else…

— Charles Dickens

“The world had made him extravagant and vain - Extravagance and vanity had made him cold-hearted and selfish. Vanity, while seeking its own guilty…

— Jane Austen

“He burned to appease the fierce longing of his heart before which everything else was idle and alien. He cared little that he was…

— James Joyce

“If only certain things had been preventable, his life would have unfurled in front of him as intended, like a lush Oriental carpet. No…

— Shilpa Agarwal

“He disliked his own lies as much as his parents', but still he continued to lie -- boldly and cunningly. He did this primarily…

— Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

“He felt that if he brooded on what he had gone through he would sicken or grow mad. There were sins whose fascination was…

— Oscar Wilde

“He turned to appease the fierce longings of his heart before which everything else was idle and alien. He cared little that he was…

— James Joyce

“As the high mountains are intersected by deep valleys, as puritanism in one age begets infidelity in the next, as in many countries the…

— Anthony Trollope

“the idea presented itself definitely to his mind that it was in his power to exchange the dreary, artificial, idle, and individualistic life he…

— Leo Tolstoy