Behave Quote by Edith Wharton Download Open image “We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?” — Edith Wharton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Behave Books Life Novel People
It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction to teach… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
We are all potentially characters in a novel--with the difference that characters in a novel really get to live their lives to the full. — Georges Simenon Copy Share Image
The reason I never wrote a novel is that I don't have what it takes to write characters, so they would all be talking… — Wim Wenders Copy Share Image
There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized. Or even cured. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel. — Rose Tremain Copy Share Image
I know when I go and see a writer, the first thing I think to myself is, 'Are they the character in the book?'… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
There's something to be said for a likable character, but fiction has a way of upending our ordinary standards. — Ben Dolnick Copy Share Image
I can't be alone among fiction writers in regarding the world, so much weirder than anything we could make up, as beating us at… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
I'm not sure that it's possible to write a novel about people who don't transgress or stumble, people who don't surprise themselves with the… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
The great thing about novels is that you can be as unshy as you want to be. I'm very polite in person. I don't… — Nicholson Baker 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
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To behave creatively in art means behavior with skill; and skill comes from discipline, not derangement. The artist who knows the rules -and proportion… — Burne Hogarth Copy Share Image
For war to man, like childbirth to women, is simplifying in its emotions and activities. All the real problems of life can be put… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
The possibility of saying anything about a thing rests on the assumption that it preserves its identity, or continues to be the same thing… — Frank Knight Copy Share Image
Why does man behave like perfect idiot? This is the problem I wish to deal with. — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Copy Share Image
This is a time in my life where I'm gonna behave like an elegant human being. Or not. — Elaine Stritch Copy Share Image
Most people, even in simple risky situations, don't behave the way the theory of utility would have them behave. — Howard Raiffa Copy Share Image
As a club, we have an educational purpose: to give back to those people who love Arsenal so that they learn moral values from… — Arsene Wenger Copy Share Image
What astonishes many of us is not so much that human nature is fundamentally corrupt; we are astonished rather that it does not behave… — Morton Irving Seiden Copy Share Image
Do we behave out of fear of punishment, or out of the demands of our heart? For me, it is the latter, as I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you are in hard labor, remember that the length of labor is usually proportional to the number of people around. Avoid the presence… — Michel Odent Copy Share Image
