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| b14606f | A tremor of apprehension encircled the room. None of the ladies required any preparation to pronounce on a question of morals; but when they were called ethics it was different. The club, when fresh from the "Encyclopedia Brittanica," the "Reader's Handbook" or Smith's "Classical Dictionary," could deal confidently with any subject; but when taken unawares it had been known to define agnosticism as a heresy of the Early Church and Professor.. | Edith Wharton | ||
| c4c7a88 | The "Hazeldean heart" was a proverbial boast in the family; the Hazeldeans privately considered it more distinguished than the Sillerton gout, and far more refined than the Wesson liver; and it had permitted most of them to survive, in valetudinarian ease, to a ripe old age, when they died of some quite other disorder. But Charles Hazeldean had defied it, and it took its revenge, and took it savagely." | humor illness | Edith Wharton | |
| fb9b102 | In this interpretative light Mrs. Grancy acquired the charm which makes some women's faces like a book of which the last page is never turned. There was always something new to read in her eyes. | woman | Edith Wharton | |
| fb4879f | They had never been at peace together, they two; and now he felt himself drawn downward into the strange mysterious depths of her tranquillity. | loss loss-of-love regret | Edith Wharton | |
| 6fdd20f | But we're so different, you know: she likes being good, and I like being happy. And | Edith Wharton | ||
| 4c3d302 | Edith learned long ago that men are drawn to women who are either undeniably beautiful or alluringly vulnerable. She's never been either. | Jennie Fields | ||
| d34b183 | The immense accretion of flesh which had descended on her in middle life like a flood of lava on a doomed city had changed her from a plump active little woman with a neatly-turned foot and ankle into something as vast and august as a natural phenomenon. She had accepted this submergence as philosophically as all her other trials, and now, in extreme old age, was rewarded by presenting to her mirror an almost unwrinkled expanse of firm pink.. | description | Edith Wharton | |
| 9e9d730 | But then you come; and you're so much more than I remembered, and what I want of you is so much more than an hour or two every now and then, with wastes of thirsty waiting between, that I can sit perfectly beside you, like this, with that other vision in my mind, just quietly trusting to it to come true. | Edith Wharton | ||
| f29ddf4 | And of what account was anybody's past, in the huge kaleidoscope where all the social atoms spun around on the same plane? | Edith Wharton | ||
| 86f4e41 | You don't know how much I need such a friend," she said. "My aunt is full of copy-book axioms, but they were all meant to apply to conduct in the early fifties. I always feel that to live up to them would include wearing book-muslin with gigot sleeves. And the other women--my best friends--well, they use me or abuse me; but they don't care a straw what happens to me. I've been about too long--people are getting tired of me; they are beginni.. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 4a3d1de | There was no use in trying to emancipate a wife who had not the dimmest notion that she was not free; | Edith Wharton | ||
| b0429ec | The sensation was part of the general strangeness that made him feel like a man waking from a long sleep to find himself in an unknown country among people of alien tongue. We live in our own souls as in an unmapped region, a few acres of which we have cleared for our habitation; while of the nature of those nearest us we know but the boundaries that march with ours. Of the points in his wife's character not in direct contact with his own, .. | Edith Wharton | ||
| eb45691 | Glennard did himself injustice. it was from the unexpected discovery of his own pettiness that he chiefly suffered. Our self-esteem is apt to be based on the hypothetical great act we have never had occasion to perform; and even the most self-scrutinizing modesty credits itself negatively with a high standard of conduct. Glennard had never thought himself a hero; but he had been certain that he was incapable of baseness. We all like our wro.. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 256ec36 | Vd'khvashchiiat trepet produkt na obshchestvenata sistema, k'm koiato prinadlezheshe i toi i v koiato viarvashe, devoikata, koiato ne znaeshe nishcho i ochakvashe vsichko, go gledashe kato nepoznata prez poznatite cherti na Mei Uel'nd i toi oshche vedn'zh os'zna, che brak't ne e tikho pristanishche, kakto mu biakha vnushavali, a plavane iz neznaini moreta. | български добър-вкус | Edith Wharton | |
| 6139f5d | Archer disliked her use of the word "clever" almost as much as her use of the word "common"; but he was beginning to fear his tendency to dwell on the things he disliked in her. After all, her point of view had always been the same. It was that of all the people he had grown up among, and he had always regarded it as necessary but negligible. Until a few months ago he had never known a "nice" woman who looked at life differently; and if a m.. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 9ed796c | Is New York such a labyrinth? I thought it so straight up and down--like Fifth Avenue. And with all the cross streets numbered!" She seemed to guess his faint disapproval of this, and added, with the rare smile that enchanted her whole face: "If you knew how I like it for just that--the straight-up-and-downness, and the big honest labels on everything!" He saw his chance. "Everything may be labelled--but everybody is not." | Edith Wharton | ||
| 39f593f | imagination WAS the eagle that devoured Prometheus! | Edith Wharton | ||
| 7a29f32 | Stuyvesants and Vanderbilts and Roosevelts and staid, respectable Washington Square. Trinity Church. Mrs. Astor's famous ballroom, the Four Hundred, snobby Ward McAllister, that traitor Edith Wharton, Delmonico's. Zany Zelda and Scott in the Plaza fountain, the Algonquin Round Table, Dottie Parker and her razor tongue and pen, the Follies. Cholly Knickerbocker, 21, Lucky Strike dances at the Stork, El Morocco. The incomparable Hildegarde pl.. | Melanie Benjamin | ||
| 690daab | Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths. | Edith Wharton | ||
| cfc4578 | If the ability to read carries the average man no higher than the gossip of his neighbours, if he asks nothing more nourishing out of books and the theatre than he gets hanging about the store, the bar and the street-corner, then culture is bound to be dragged down to him instead of his being lifted up by culture. | literature reading | Edith Wharton | |
| 22afe48 | There were moments when she longed blindly for anything different, anything strange, remote and untried; but the utmost reach of her imagination did not go beyond picturing her usual life in a new setting. She could not figure herself as anywhere but in a drawing-room, diffusing elegance as a flower sheds perfume. | Edith Wharton | ||
| a1010c1 | I hate in-the-end kindnesses: they're about as nourishing as the third day of cold mutton. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 1c4ac98 | He seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of its frozen woe, with all that was warm and sentient in him fast bound below the surface; but there was nothing unfriendly in his silence. I simply felt that he lived in a depth of moral isolation too remote for casual access, and I had the sense that his loneliness was not merely the result of his personal plight, tragic as I guessed that to be, but had in it, as Harmon Go.. | Edith Wharton | ||
| e8d0518 | In consequence of this search 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 | ||
| 2afd7e8 | The stage was thought to have a shaping influence, for the most part a bad one, on youthful character and conduct in much the way television is thought to have in our day. | Edith Wharton | ||
| a128cb5 | EVERY ATOM OF YOUR FLESH IS AS DEAR TO ME AS MY OWN: IN PAIN AND SICKNESS IT WOULD STILL BE DEAR." Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre * "EACH TIME YOU HAPPEN TO ME ALL OVER AGAIN." Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence" | Chance Carter | ||
| 633f292 | Ruth Varnum was always as nervous as a rat; and, come to think of | Edith Wharton | ||
| c135809 | Meanwhile everything matters -- that concerns you. | Edith Wharton | ||
| bc3ab56 | Nao e verdade, monsieur, que o grande valor esta em manter a propria liberdade intelectual, em nao escravizar o nosso poder de apreciacao, a nossa independencia critica? | Edith Wharton | ||
| b80cceb | You'll be amazed how much you have in common with Edith Wharton (who struggled to feel worthy of success), Louisa May Alcott (who badly needed money), Madaleine L'Engle (who could have papered an entire house with her rejection letters) and other writers... | impostor-syndrome women-writers writing | Nava Atlas | |
| 016fcc4 | and he was struck again by the religious revernce of even the most unworldly American women for the social advantages of dress. 'It's their armour,' he thought, 'their defence against the unknown, and their defiance of it. | Edith Wharton | ||
| d8a558b | She clung to him desperately, and as he drew her to his knees on the couch she felt as if they were being sucked down together into some bottomless abyss. | Edith Wharton | ||
| add565c | This new resolve gave her a sort of light-headed self-confidence: when she left the dinner-table she felt so easy and careless that she was surprised to see that the glass of champagne beside her plate was untouched. She felt as if all its sparkles were whirling through her. | confidence | Edith Wharton | |
| f7ad45a | Her mind was as destitute of beauty and mystery as the prairie school-house in which she had been educated; and her ideals seemed to Ralph as pathetic as the ornaments made of corks and cigar-bands with which her infant hands had been taught to adorn it. He was beginning to understand this, and learning to adapt himself to the narrow compass of her experience. | ralph-marvell superficiality undine-spragg | Edith Wharton | |
| 3edeb13 | cherished it for being small and inconvenient, and thus keeping out the "new people" whom New York was beginning to dread and yet be drawn to; and the sentimental clung to it for its historic associations, and the musical for its excellent acoustics, always so problematic a quality in halls built for the hearing of music." | Edith Wharton | ||
| 8518b18 | I'm improvident: I live in the moment when I'm happy | Edith Wharton | ||
| f11f6c9 | Edith Wharton with the death penalty | Simon Sebag Montefiore | ||
| 17f2883 | bursting with the belated eloquence of the inarticulate"...happens to me on a daily basis!" | Edith Wharton | ||
| fbf4e5e | W]hat with the hours dedicated to the law and those given to dining out or entertaining friends at home, with an occasional evening at the Opera or the play, the life he was living had still seemed a fairly real and inevitable sort of business. But Newport represented the escape from duty... | Edith Wharton | ||
| e0193d5 | But least is he who, with enchanted eyes Filled with high visions of fair shapes to be, Muses which god he shall immortalize In the proud Parian's perpetuity, | Edith Wharton | ||
| 8390b1a | And how can anyone give you happiness who hasn't got it himself? | Edith Wharton | ||
| cdba079 | The light of the October afternoon lay on an old high-roofed house which enclosed in its long expanse of brick and yellowish stone the breadth of a grassy court filled with the shadow and sound of limes. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 0764033 | he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material and social interests held together by ignorance on the one side and hypocrisy on the other. | privilege | Edith Wharton | |
| 36270b3 | name's Regina Dallas,' I said, 'It was Beaufort when he covered you with jewels, and it's got to stay Beaufort now that he's covered you with shame.' '' So | Edith Wharton |