Amusement Quote by Edith Wharton

She thought of how precious it was to be able to know another person over many years. There was incomparable richness in it.

— Alice Walker

Apart from the pleasure of looking at her and listening to her-of enjoying in her what others less discriminatingly but as liberally appreciated-he had…

— Edith Wharton

“Unfortunately, she discovered too late that her unwritten list of desirable attributes was missing a few crucial items. Empathy, for one. A willingness to…

— Delphine Dryden

In her enthusiasms she had always looked for something tangible: she had always loved church for its flowers, music for its romantic words, literature…

— Gustave Flaubert

“They wanted a girl who knew what it was like to acquire things out of amusement rather than need. Who sympathized with those whose…

— Kathleen Tessaro

“And her deepest enjoyment was to feel the continuity between the movements of her own soul and the agitations of the world.”

— Henry James

“But she had recently come to think that in such unhappy times--when the odds were so high against personal happiness--to find love was miraculous,…

— Bernard Malamud

“That was during the time of her lost happiness, when his love had built round her a protective wall, which for a brief period…

— Anna Kavan

“Something in her was changing as she read the books. Life after life flashed before her eyes, yet she stayed safe from misery. And…

— Louise Erdrich

“She had passed the spring of youth, but her wit prolonged the triumph of its reign, and they mutually assisted the fame of each…

— Ann Radcliffe

“She had humoured, or softened, or concealed his failings, and promoted his real respectability for seventeen years; and though not the very happiest being…

— Jane Austen Persuasion

“She was young enough and inexperienced enough to make many demands upon life - that it should be romantic, that it should, in the…

— Hugh Walpole