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Edith Wharton Quotes

Edith Wharton quotes

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

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Well--there it was, and the fault was doubtless neither hers nor his, but that of the world they had grown up in, of their own moral contempt for it and physical dependence on it, of his half-talents and her half-principles, of the something in them both that was not stout enough to resist nor yet pliant enough to yield. Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton quote: "You thought I was a lovelorn mistress and I was really just an..."
You thought I was a lovelorn mistress and I was really just an expensive prostitute. Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton quote: "Set wide the window. Let me drink the day."
Set wide the window. Let me drink the day. Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton quote: "She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making."
She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making. Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton quote: "She gave so many reasons that I've forgotten them all."
She gave so many reasons that I've forgotten them all. Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton quote: "It was easy enough to despise the world, but decidedly..."
It was easy enough to despise the world, but decidedly difficult to find any other habitable region. Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton quote: "Who's 'they'? Why don't you all get together and be 'they'..."
Who's 'they'? Why don't you all get together and be 'they' yourselves? Edith Wharton
I swear I only want to hear about you, to know what you've been doing. It's a hundred years since we've met-it may be another hundred before we meet again. Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton quote: "Everything may be labelled- but everybody is not."
Everything may be labelled- but everybody is not. Edith Wharton
After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others. Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton quote: "A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only..."
A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys. Edith Wharton
These Americans, under their forthcoming manner, their surface-gush, as some might call it, have an odd reticence about what goes on underneath. Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton quote: "- he could do charming things, if only he had known how to..."
- he could do charming things, if only he had known how to finish them! Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton quote: "We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?"
We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we? Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton quote: "The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted..."
The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else. Edith Wharton

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