Indifference Quote by Edith Wharton

It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness.

— Edith Wharton

“In a society that valued politeness over truth, where malice and subterfuge were commonplace, even accepted, Lily’s frankness was labeled an eccentricity of her…

— Mary Campisi

“With insufferable vanity had she believed herself in the secret of everybody's feelings; with unpardonable arrogance proposed to arrange everybody's destiny. She was proved…

— Jane Austen

Of all faults the one she most despised in others was the want of bravery; the meanness of heart which leads to untruth.

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“There was nothing to cool or banish love in these circumstances, though much to create despair. Much, too, you will think, reader, to engender…

— Charlotte Brontë

“Absence with the conviction probably of her indifference, had produced this very natural and desirable effect.”

— Jane Austen

“Though they were very dissimilar in character, they also shared many tastes and appetites, and those they didn’t share they tolerated in each other…

— Colleen McCullough

“She did not really like her. She would not be in a hurry to find fault, but she suspected that there was no elegance,…

— Jane Austen

“There are few things more discomfiting than a spontaneous outburst of genuine decency from someone you’re determined to dislike for no good reason.”

— Gregory David Roberts

“Because she had always been happy, she wanted everyone about her to be happy or, at least, pleased with themselves. To this end, she…

— Margaret Mitchell

“She could not be made rude and malicious by the rudeness and malice of those about her.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“Whenever she saw in others an advantage, however trivial, which she herself lacked, she would persuade herself that it was no advantage at all,…

— Marcel Proust