Quote by Edith Wharton Download Open image ““- he could do charming things, if only he had known how to finish them!”” — Edith Wharton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“He had no special knowledge or preternatural charm. He was what I’d made him.” — Claudia Rowe Copy Share Image
“He finds me charming and so long as I don't think about it, it's ok, but I worry, what if I forget to do… — Martha Ronk Copy Share Image
“He was charming, but he did not slather his charm around in great quantities. He merely drizzled it.” — Anat Talshir Copy Share Image
“If there was one thing he knew about himself, it was that he could take any good thing and make a mess out of… — Cassandra Clare Holly Black Copy Share Image
“He knew what he could certainly do, and what he might do if he was lucky, and what he couldn’t do barring a miracle.” — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
“Oh, it was wicked of me to make him the troublesome thing I was. He should stay always what he was, the happy-go-lucky cheerful… — V.C. Andrews Copy Share Image
“He had a singularly charming smile, and it ensured for him, no matter how exacting might be his demands, the uncomplaining exertions of his… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
“He couldn't help but give in to the occasional temptation to replay past events in his mind, altering them, changing them from cruel to… — Kevin Henkes Copy Share Image
“Like everyone he knew, he could discern the hollowness in people’s charm only when it was directed at someone other than himself.” — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“If he had ever tried anything, then he no doubt would have succeeded, paved a road that few could follow. But effort is the… — Sarah Noffke Copy Share Image
“He only knew that he had lived up to his best impulse, and that is all any one can do.” — Gene Stratton-Porter Copy Share Image
“And I knew, as I had always known but somehow forgotten to remember in these past years, that I could never have done it,… — Melanie Benjamin 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
