Human nature Quote by Edith Wharton

“large part of her simplicity consisted in determining not to want what she could not have with ease. So”

— James Baldwin

“But while her world was soft and comfortable, offering everything I could ever want, it all came too easy. There was something to be…

— Alyson Noel

“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

“Sometimes she went so far as to wish that she might find herself some day in a difficult position, so that she should have…

— Henry James

“She had received ideas which disposed her to be courteous and kind to all, and to pity every one, as being less happy than…

— Jane Austen

“She didn’t need to be received as nobility to be noble.”

— Courtney Milan

“Because she had always been happy, she wanted everyone about her to be happy or, at least, pleased with themselves. To this end, she…

— Margaret Mitchell

“She had the hard, half-apathetic expression of one who deems anything possible at the hands of time and chance, except perhaps fair play”

— Thomas Hardy

“Things were not so simple after all. She could not understand even her own feelings. She saw the most cherished of her convictions put…

— Virginia Woolf

“But she could not breathe long on the heights; there had been nothing in her training to develop any continuity of moral strength: what…

— Edith Wharton

“What she wanted was really two things: to be elsewhere, and to be somebody else. Or at least a version of herself that had…

— J. Robert Lennon

“In the joy of her gratified desires she wanted to make everybody about her happy. If only everyone would do as she wished she…

— Edith Wharton