Psychology Quote by Edith Wharton

“The first and last weakness of his life, before him again. For a moment he felt himself blinded by his own memories; his own…

— Wilkie Collins

“One that has well digested his knowledge both of books and men, has little enjoyment but in the company of a few select companions.…

— David Hume

“He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others.”

— Samuel Foote

“His good looks and his rank had one fair claim on his attachment; since to them he must have owed a wife of very…

— Jane Austen

“He had her alone in the garden. Her moist lips. The moonlight in her eyes. A lesser man would be merely tempted. A greater…

— Diana Holquist

“He had grown fat on solitude, he thought, and had learned to expect nothing from the day but at best a dull contentment. Sometimes…

— Colm Tóibín

“Then he had thought it all beyond her mental grasp and it had been pleasant to explain things to her. Now he saw that…

— Margaret Mitchell

“He accepted the deformity which had made life so hard for him; he knew that it had warped his character, but no he saw…

— W. Somerset Maughamset Maugham

“And then he again uneasily saw, as he had latterly seen with more and more frequency, the scorn of Nature for man’s finer emotions,…

— Thomas Hardy

“His mind, never content with shallow satisfactions, crept to the brink of knowing. What kind of power was it if it would never be…

— Chinua Achebe

“His nature was not a suspicious one, and he did not take pleasure, as some men did, in believing himself to have been betrayed.”

— Eleanor Catton

“suspicion had sometimes been current that he really was as unruffled as he looked, and that whatever happened, he did not give a damn.…

— James Hilton