Glitter Quote by Edith Wharton Download Open image ““Under the glitter of their opportunities she saw the poverty of their achievement.”” — Edith Wharton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Glitter Glitter Opportunities Poverty Poverty Achievement Saw Poverty Success
“And, conversely, she went on to herself, sneering at the Grand Duke's palace, poverty is wasted on the poor, who never know how to… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
“there was daunting poverty, and there was haunting wealth and the narrator warned her to keep to herself” — Alix Olson Copy Share Image
“The stinting poverty in which they lived was unbearable; it was destroying them. It did not mean that there was not enough to eat:… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“...hers was the heartlessness of poverty, which, it seemed to me, is different from the heartlessness of wealth. p 290” — Frank Huyler Copy Share Image
“Those who were raised in poverty and have been successful to overcome the shame of it, understands the hardship of those who are left… — Ellen J. Barrier Copy Share Image
“Money and office and success are the consolations of impotence. Fortune turns kind to such solid people and lets them suck their bone in… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“she still had that fundamental insecurity that one bout of poverty can inflict for a lifetime, and no amount of money remedy.” — Len Deighton Copy Share Image
“She was not granted the luxury of forgetting her lower middle-class existence where life hangs by an unseen thread to every hope and where… — Madhu Vajpayee 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… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“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… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“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
“The demon stopped its frantic attempts to escape. It stared at the glitter and began to pant, fingers twitching in anticipation. More twitching. Faster… — Jana Oliver Copy Share Image
Suddenly the full long wail of a ship's horn surged through the open window and flooded the dim room - a cry of boundless,… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
In some suburban schools, the curriculum is chock-full of rigorous A.P. courses and the parking lot glitters with pricey SUVs, but one doesn't have… — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
What treasures here do Mammon's sons behold! Yet know that all that which glitters is not gold. — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Basically Britney Spears' video is like a three an a half minute version of Glitter. — Christian Finnegan Copy Share Image
In harmony with the Tao, the sky is clear and spacious, the earth is solid and full, all creature flourish together, content with the… — Laozi Copy Share Image
“The stars glitter from outside... like cosmic confetti sprinkled across the night sky.” — Gretchen Powell Copy Share Image
He sees with amazement that our defeats are but the stepping stones to victory and that all his victories are stepping stones to ruin.… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
It is a thing which every sensible American should learn from every sensible Englishman, that glare and glitter, gimcracks and gewgaws, are not indispensable… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“And don’t start your own line of glitter and try to sell it at Sephora.” — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
