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Edith Wharton Quotes

Edith Wharton quotes

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

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Edith Wharton quote: "And you'll sit beside me, and we'll look, not at visions, but..."
And you'll sit beside me, and we'll look, not at visions, but at realities. Edith Wharton
Her mind was an hotel where facts came and went like transient lodgers, without leaving their address behind, and frequently without paying for their board. Edith Wharton
Xingu!" she scoffed. "Why, it was the fact of our knowing so much more about it than she did—unprepared though we were—that made Osric Dane so furious. I should have thought that was plain enough to everybody! Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton quote: "To begin with, I hate these new-fangled intermediate meals...."
To begin with, I hate these new-fangled intermediate meals. Why can't people eat enough at luncheon to last till dinner? Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton quote: "The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind..."
The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background. Edith Wharton
Her whole being dilated in an atmosphere of luxury. It was the background she required, the only climate she could breathe in. Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton quote: "A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue."
A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue. Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton quote: "She threw back her head with a laugh that made her chins..."
She threw back her head with a laugh that made her chins ripple like little waves. Edith Wharton
There were certain things that had to be done, and if done at all, done handsomely and thoroughly; and one of these, in the old New York code, was the tribal rally around a kinswoman about to be eliminated from the tribe. Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton quote: "What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want..."
What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out. Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton quote: "She pronounced the word married as if her voice caressed it...."
She pronounced the word married as if her voice caressed it. It seemed a rustling covert leading to enchanted glades. Edith Wharton
Brains & culture seem non-existent from one end of the social scale to the other, & half the morons yell for filth, & the other half continue to put pants on the piano-legs. Edith Wharton
She was so evidently the victim of the civilization which had produced her, that the links of her bracelet seemed like manacles chaining her to her fate. Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton quote: "She would not have put herself out so much to say so little."
She would not have put herself out so much to say so little. Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton quote: "But you'll get it back-you'll get it all back, with your face..."
But you'll get it back-you'll get it all back, with your face... Edith Wharton

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