Humor Quote by Edith Wharton

“He loved the interminable winter nights, when the dissatisfied wind mewed through the keyhole, and gusts of acrid smoke were driven down through the…

— Violet Trefusis

“The thought brought a ghost of a smile to his lips. Winter evoked primordial feelings of seeking shelter and fire. The realization of the…

— Jaime Allison Parker

“The cool bathed his eyes and slowed the flight of time-time, that had crept so insidiously through the lazy April afternoons, seemed so intangible…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Summer fell upon Paris, with everyone still intently following his own subterranean course of passion or habit and looking up like a startled creature…

— Françoise Sagan

“But the constant motion of the flames soon lulled him into a passive state where unrelated fragments of thoughts, sounds, images, and emotions drifted…

— Christopher Paolini

“Winter is the time for stories, staying fast by the glow of fire. And outside, in the darkness, the stars are brighter than you…

— Isabel Greenberg

“He had done nothing on Christmas day, just wandered around outside in the frozen woods. Hard ground, chill winds and bare branches that looked…

— R.D. Ronald

“The Farmer’s Almanac promised a cold winter. The coldest in decades. Andrew grinned, unaware of how hideously ugly it made him. Let the winter…

— Jaime Allison Parker

“And as he walked through the snow his footsteps disappeared behind him. He felt at that moment that he was coming from nowhere and…

— Chloe Thurlow

“The solution had taken a terrific toll. The restless turning of the mind tormented by a puzzle, the preoccupation at meals, the insomnia, the…

— David Kahn

“Everyday he saw better, and he began to climb slowly, one by one, almost reluctantly at first then, with intoxication and, as though drawn…

— Victor Hugo

“Closing his eyes again, standing there, glass in hand, he thought for a minute with a freezing detached almost amused calm of the dreadful…

— Malcolm Lowry