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And suddenly, as he noted the fine shades of manner by which she harmonized herself with her surroundings, it flashed on him that, to need such adroit handling, the situation must indeed be desperate (Edith Wharton Quotes)
Only, I wonder - the thing one's so certain of in advance: can it ever make one's heart beat as wildy? (Edith Wharton Quotes)
Only, I wonder - the thing one's so certain of in advance: can it ever make one's heart beat as wildly? (Edith Wharton Quotes)
Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths? Isn't it a sufficient condemnation of society to find one's self accepting such phraseology? (Edith Wharton Quotes)
The difference is that these young people take it for granted that they're going to get whatever they want, and that we almost always took it for granted that we shouldn't (Edith Wharton Quotes)
The people who take society as an escape from work are putting it to its proper use; but when it becomes the thing worked for it distorts all the relations of life (Edith Wharton Quotes)
A man doesn't know till he tries it how killing uncongenial work is, and how it destroys the power of doing what one's fit for, even if there's time for both (Edith Wharton Quotes)
... he arrived late at the office, perceived that his doing so made no difference whatever to any one, and was filled with sudden exasperation at the elaborate futility of his life (Edith Wharton Quotes)
The boy was not insensitive, he knew; but he had the facility and self confidence that came of looking at fate not as a master but as an equal (Edith Wharton Quotes)
Dialogue in fiction should be reserved for the culminating moments and regarded as the spray into which the great wave of narrative breaks in curving toward the watcher on the shore (Edith Wharton Quotes)
The value of books is proportionate to what may be called their plasticity - their quality of being all things to all men, of being diversely moulded by the impact of fresh forms of thought (Edith Wharton Quotes)
Real reading is reflex action; the born reader reads as unconsciously as he breathes; and, to carry the analogy a degree farther, reading is no more a virtue than breathing (Edith Wharton Quotes)
The taste of the usual was like cinders in his mouth, and there were moments when he felt as if he were being buried alive under his future (Edith Wharton Quotes)
She had taken everything else from him, and now she meant to take the one thing that made up for it all (Edith Wharton Quotes)
I want to put my hand out and touch you. I want to do for you and care for you. I want to be there when you're sick and when you're lonesome (Edith Wharton Quotes)
To have you here, you mean - in reach and yet out of reach? To meet you in this way, on the sly? It's the very reverse of what I want (Edith Wharton Quotes)
You gave me my first glimpse of a real life, and at the same moment you asked me to go on with a sham one. It's beyond human enduring - that's all (Edith Wharton Quotes)
There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness (Edith Wharton Quotes)
She had everything she wanted, but she still felt, at times, that there were other things she might want if she knew about them (Edith Wharton Quotes)
There was no use in trying to emancipate a wife who had not the dimmest notion that she was not free (Edith Wharton Quotes)
They stood together in the gloom of the spruces, an empty world glimmering about them wide and gray under the stars (Edith Wharton Quotes)
She wanted, passionately and persistently, two things which she believed should subsist together in any well ordered life: amusement and respectability (Edith Wharton Quotes)
... though she had not had the strength to shake off the spell that bound her to him she had lost all spontaneity of feeling, and seemed to herself to be passively awaiting a fate she could not avert (Edith Wharton Quotes)
Everything about her was warm and soft and scented; even the stains of her grief became her as raindrops do the beaten rose (Edith Wharton Quotes)
Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of her life (Edith Wharton Quotes)
She pronounced the word married as if her voice caressed it. It seemed a rustling covert leading to enchanted glades (Edith Wharton Quotes)
One of the great things about travel is that you find out how many good, kind people there are (Edith Wharton Quotes)
What she craved and really felt herself entitled to was a situation in which the noblest attitude should also be the easiest (Edith Wharton Quotes)
Does no one want to know the truth here, Mr. Archer? The real loneliness is living among all these kind of people who only ask one to pretend! (Edith Wharton Quotes)
He had her in his arms, her face like a wet flower at his lips, and all their vain terrors shriveling up like ghosts at sunrise (Edith Wharton Quotes)