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Edith Wharton Quotes

Edith Wharton quotes

American Author, Writer January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937

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But after a moment a sense of waste and ruin overcame him. There they were, close together and safe and shut in; yet so chained to their separate destinies that they might as well been half the world apart. Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton quote: "We shall hurt others less. Isn't it, after all, what you..."
We shall hurt others less. Isn't it, after all, what you always wanted? Edith Wharton
The youngest, dumpiest, dullest of the four dull and dumpy daughters whom Mrs. Van Osburgh, with unsurpassed astuteness, had "placed" one by one in enviable niches of existence! Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton quote: "It's you who are telling me; opening my eyes to things I'd..."
It's you who are telling me; opening my eyes to things I'd looked at so long that I'd ceased to see them. Edith Wharton
There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny. Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton quote: "Folly is as often justified of her children as wisdom."
Folly is as often justified of her children as wisdom. Edith Wharton
The bounds of a personality are not reproducible by a sharp black line, but...each of us flows imperceptibly into adjacent people and things. Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton quote: "Silence may be as variously shaded as speech."
Silence may be as variously shaded as speech. Edith Wharton
The words came out slowly, haltingly, as if they had cost him a struggle. Nan had noticed before now that anger was too big a garment for him; it always hung on him in uneasy folds. Edith Wharton
She wondered if, when human souls try to get too near each other, they do not inevitably become mere blurs to each other's vision. Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton quote: "My little dog—a heartbeat at my feet."
My little dog—a heartbeat at my feet. Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton quote: "My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet."
My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet. Edith Wharton
It was the old New York way...the way people who dreaded scandal more than disease, who placed decency above courage, and who considered that nothing was more ill-bred than "scenes", except those who gave rise to them. Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton quote: "Another unsettling element in modern art is that common..."
Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before. Edith Wharton
His whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled before him; and passing down its endless emptiness he saw the dwindling figure of a man to whom nothing was ever to happen. Edith Wharton

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