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Edith Wharton Quotes

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

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Archer was too intelligent to think that a young woman like Ellen Olenska would necessarily recoil from everything that reminded her of her past. She might believe herself wholly in revolt against it; but what had charmed her in it would still charm her even though it were against her will. Edith Wharton
She wanted to surprise everyone by her dash and originality, but she could not help modeling herself on the last person she met, and the confusion of ideals thus produced caused her much perturbation when she had to choose between two courses. Edith Wharton
He had a confused sense that she must have cost a great deal to make, that a great many dull and ugly people must, in some mysterious way, have been sacrificed to produce her. Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton quote: "Don't you ever mind," she asked suddenly, "not being rich..."
Don't you ever mind," she asked suddenly, "not being rich enough to buy all the books you want? Edith Wharton
He bent and laid his lips on her hands, which were cold and lifeless. She drew them away, and he turned to the door, found his coat and hat under the faint gas-light of the hall, and plunged out into the winter night bursting with the belated eloquence of the inarticulate. 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: "So close to the powers of evil she must have lived that she..."
So close to the powers of evil she must have lived that she still breathed more freely in their air. Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton quote: "She had taken everything else from him, and now she meant to..."
She had taken everything else from him, and now she meant to take the one thing that made up for it all. Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton quote: "There was no use in trying to emancipate a wife who had not..."
There was no use in trying to emancipate a wife who had not the dimmest notion that she was not free. 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
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: "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
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
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

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