Edith-wharton Quote by Jonathan Franzen

“She had learnt long ago that common sense, intelligence, good-nature, and strength of character were unimportant in comparison with a pretty face.”

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Whenever she saw in others an advantage, however trivial, which she herself lacked, she would persuade herself that it was no advantage at all,…

— Marcel Proust

“She more than likely came from good enough people. Poor, honest, hard-working folks that never got ahead but did all right as long as…

— Steve Earle

“She grew into a quiet, beautiful young woman. The beauty was a nuisance, like smog and poverty.”

— John Varley

“and if she wasn’t precisely pretty, she had a force of character that is often more attractive than simple beauty.”

— Diana Gabaldon

“Out of all of my employers, the Ivy League was by far the worst.”

— Steven Magee

“She almost reminds the engineer of certain types in high school whom everyone adored because you sensed it made no difference to them whether…

— David Foster Wallace

“Anne had never seen Mrs. Merrill before and never saw her again, but she always remembered her as a woman who had attained to…

— L.M. Montgomery

“One of the worst things that happened to her was that she was put on a pedestal which didn’t allow her to develop in…

— Andrew Morton

“Pretty was a strange thing to concern oneself over. Pretty was subjective and fallacious.”

— Rivers Solomon

“She was not an unkind woman, despite a lifetime of being gently dried out on the stove of education, but she was conscientious and…

— Terry Pratchett

“It's rather clever of her to have made a specialty of devoting herself to dull people—the field is such a large one, and she…

— Edith Wharton