Quote by Edith Wharton Download Open image ““the things that she took for granted gave the measure of those she had rebelled against.”” — Edith Wharton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“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 Copy Share Image
“I saw it for what it was—a hasty retreat. She was afraid. She and her kingdom had been dominated for so long by a… — Melinda Hyde Copy Share Image
“She had conquered them, as she would conquer so many in the years to come, by goodness rather than strength. It is a sorrowfully… — William Napier Copy Share Image
“And what she hated more than anything that moment was for all the differences between people to matter no more - no more differences… — Ursula Hegi Copy Share Image
“And that the surest way to bring destruction upon the things she wanted was to want them in the first place. Her” — Molly O'Keefe Copy Share Image
“It was against her principles to allow anyone else to fight her battles and perhaps be injured or killed in her place.” — Christine Feehan Copy Share Image
“She had some kind of foolish and unreasonable notion that the more doggedly she stood, the more would she placate certain mysterious powers which… — Cora Sandel Copy Share Image
“She, on the other hand, seized things, truly wanted them, was passionate about them, played for all or nothing, and wasn’t afraid of contempt,… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
“I armed her against the censures of the world, shewed her that books were sweet unreproaching companions to the miserable, and that if they… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“She was a woman who conquered herself so that she could serve others.” — Tilda Shalof Copy Share Image
“It had evidently not occurred to her as yet that those who consent to share the bread of adversity may want the whole cake… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“It seemed that the lust to power was a thing one grew out of. What one wanted, she thought ... was peace, and freedom… — Dorothy L. Sayers 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 oppressed by this creation of factitious purity, so cunningly manufactured by a conspiracy of mothers and aunts and grandmothers and long-dead ancestresses, because it was supposed to be what he wanted, what he had a right… — Edith Wharton Copy Share
“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 breeze Has stretched the thwart boughs bare to meet the snow, Night is not, autumn is not--but the flow Of vast, ethereal and irradiate seas, Poured from the far world's flaming boundaries In waxing tides of… — Edith Wharton Copy Share
“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
