Marriage Quote by Edith Wharton

“She had learned that when people were bent on doing something they believed was a good deed, it was usually impossible to dissuade them.”

— Celeste Ng

“She hated to admit that money was the most serious difficulty. Knowing full well that it was important, she nevertheless rebelled at the unalterable…

— Nella Larsen

“She had to live. It is useless to quarrel with one's bread and butter. And to expect a great deal out of life is…

— D.H. Lawrence

“With so much at stake, and so many fortunes to be made, benevolent intentions can easily be drowned out. She”

— Tim Lebbon

“She might be curt and ungrateful, but by God she could bake.”

— Eowyn Ivey

“the things that she took for granted gave the measure of those she had rebelled against.”

— Edith Wharton

“She didn't use the misery of others to cultivate her own smugness, true, but at least I didn't go about eating all their food.”

— Martin Amis

“The manner of the woman was ungracious; but her words were true. They saw that their presence could do nothing towards the alleviation of…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Was it worth saying that she was no longer going to do anything for anyone since it seemed to her that the more generous…

— Joanna Trollope

“And fairly enough she thought, for that was the way of the world. A road was to be driven upon. The candy dish was…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“It was becoming difficult to separate her own decisions from those made by others, for her, on behalf of themselves.”

— Chris Pavone

“She was like a bride-to-be who begins to feel her sickening qualms as the day approaches, and dares not speak her mind because so…

— Ian McEwan