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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a969760 | Their types were familiar enough to Ralph, who had taken their measure in former wanderings, and come across their duplicates in every scene of continental idleness. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 89a8995 | 'l tr~ 'n mHfZ@ lmr `l~ Hryth lfkry@, wHmy@ qdrth `l~ lbd` 'w lnqd lmstql ystHqn ltDHy@? lhdh lsbb hjrt lSHf@ w ltj't l~ '`ml rtyb@ kltdrys w '`ml lskrtry@. SHyH 'n fyh kdH wshq, lkn bh ystTy` lmr Swn Hryth lkhlqy@ 'w Htrm ldht. w`ndm ystm` lmr l~ lHwrt lshy'q@ ystTy` bd r'yh dwn khwf mn ltSryH bm yfkr bh, 'w ymknh 'n ynSt wyt'ml w yjyb fy dkhyl@ nfsh. ah m zjml lHwrt lmmt`@! l shy y`dlh. n hwd lbd` hw lhw lwHyd ldhy ystHq 'n ntnfsh. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 2492e0d | THE TOUCHSTONE | Edith Wharton | ||
| a77893b | the pain was unspeakable, worse than reading the collected works of Edith Wharton, | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 983f051 | During the interval between her divorce and her remarriage she had learned what things cost, but not how to do without them; and money still seemed to her like some mysterious and uncertain stream which occasionally vanished underground but was sure to bubble up again at one's feet. | Edith Wharton | ||
| e7c49ad | It was a kiss with a future in it: like a ring slipped upon her soul. And now, in the dreadful pause that followed--while Strefford fidgeted with his cigarette-case and rattled the spoon in his cup--Susy remembered what she had seen through the circle of Nick's kiss: that blue illimitable distance which was at once the landscape at their feet and the future in their souls. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 12ebf96 | colonnade: | Edith Wharton | ||
| 2a8c0ad | Ah, no, he did not want May to have that kind of innocence, the innocence that seals the mind against imagination and the heart against experience... | Edith Wharton | ||
| c40999f | Don't they say," she asked, feeling her way as in a kind of tender apprehensiveness, "that the early Christians, instead of pulling down the heathen temples -- the temples of the unclean gods -- purified them by turning them to their own uses? I've always thought one might do that with one's actions -- the actions one loathes but can't undo. One can make, I mean, a wrong the door to other wrongs or an impassable wall against them...." Her v.. | Edith Wharton | ||
| f6620db | What novels did you read when you were young, dear? I'm convinced it all turns on that. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 84878af | 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 | ||
| 8e8a482 | I've never liked the telephone. It's a noisy, shrill intruder. If it were up to me, I'd ban all phones and bring back visiting days, like in Jane Austen and Edith Wharton novels: | Terri Cheney | ||
| 130906a | There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it." --Edith Wharton" | Zig Ziglar | ||
| acd41a1 | declivity. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 79850df | Reader, pick any Bronte. Any one, doesn't matter. What do you see? You see intelligence, you see an observer, you see distance, you don't see beauty. Look at Maria Edgeworth, Mrs Gaskell. Look at Edith Wharton, she's Henry James in a dress. Henry called Edith the Angel of Devastation, which is not exactly Top Score in the Feminine Charms department. Agatha Christie is a perfect match for Alastair Sim when he was playing Miss Fritton in the .. | Niall Williams | ||
| abf51c3 | Chapter 1 Selden paused in surprise. In the afternoon rush of the Grand Central Station his eyes had been refreshed | Edith Wharton | ||
| da34fa4 | Mais, en attendant, c'etait deja merveilleux de s'asseoir dans le coin d'une salle silencieuse, avec des volumes empiles en face de lui, les mains plongees dans les cheveux, l'ame immergee dans un monde nouveau | Edith Wharton | ||
| a86751f | childish. Thereupon Filomena excused herself, that she might put a clean shirt on Jacopone, and Odo was left to his melancholy musings. His mind had of late run much on economic abuses; but what was any philandering with reform to this close contact with misery? It was as though white hungry faces had suddenly stared in at the windows of his brightly-lit life. What did these people care for education, enlightenment, the religion of humanity.. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 50f0f4a | Siuzi Branch po muzhski otnosilas' k dannomu slovu... | Edith Wharton | ||
| 8bcca3a | Odo in fact owed his first acquaintance with the French writers to Alfieri, who, in the intervals of his wandering over Europe, now and then reappeared in Turin laden with the latest novelties in Transalpine literature and haberdashery. What his eccentric friend failed to provide, Odo had little difficulty in obtaining for himself; for though most of the new writers were on the Index, and the Sardinian censorship was notoriously severe, the.. | Edith Wharton | ||
| e927bef | The invisible world of thought and conduct had been the frequent subject of his musings; but the other, tangible world was close to him too, spreading like a rich populous plain between himself and the distant heights of speculation. The old doubts, the old dissatisfactions, hung on the edge of consciousness; but he was too profoundly Italian not to linger awhile in that atmosphere of careless acquiescence that is so pleasant a medium for t.. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 6fce431 | This conversation revealed to Odo a third conception of the religious idea. In Piedmont religion imposed itself as a military discipline, the enforced duty of the Christian citizen to the heavenly state; to the Duke it was a means of purchasing spiritual immunity from the consequences of bodily weakness; to the Bishop, it replaced the panem et circenses of ancient Rome. Where, in all this, was the share of those whom Christ had come to save.. | Edith Wharton | ||
| dd3ca74 | Every one in polite circles knew that, in America, "a gentleman couldn't go into politics." But," | Edith Wharton | ||
| 3004e92 | But his thoughts were not all dark. Undine's moods still infected him, and when she was happy he felt an answering lightness. Even when her amusements were too primitive to be shared he could enjoy their reflection in her face. Only, as he looked back, he was struck by the evanescence, the lack of substance, in their moments of sympathy, and by the permanent marks left by each breach between them. Yet he still fancied that some day the bala.. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 788bebe | This conversation revealed to Odo a third conception of the religious idea. In Piedmont religion imposed itself as a military discipline, the enforced duty of the Christian citizen to the heavenly state; to the Duke it was a means of purchasing spiritual immunity from the consequences of bodily weakness; to the Bishop, it replaced the panem et circenses of ancient Rome. Where, in all this, was the share of those whom Christ had come to save.. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 923bbd3 | Variant: What is not yet done is only what we have not yet attempted to do. | Alexis de Tocqueville | ||
| b4b5c17 | A little nonsense now and then Is relished by the wisest men. | Nonsense | ||
| c44c770 | As with most thoughtful natures, Odo's first disillusionment was to come from discovering not what his God condemned, but what He condoned. Between Cantapresto's coarse philosophy of pleasure and the refined complaisances of his new confessor he felt the distinction to be one rather of taste than of principle; and it seemed to him that the religion of the aristocracy might not unfairly be summed up in the ex-soprano's cynical aphorism: "As .. | Edith Wharton | ||
| cd238e9 | Mr. Popple, in fact, held that the personality of the artist should at all times be dissembled behind that of the man. It was his opinion that the essence of good-breeding lay in tossing off a picture as easily as you lit a cigarette. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 56838d4 | Passion," the artist implied, would have been the dominant note of his life, had it not been held in check by a sentiment of exalted chivalry, and by the sense that a nature of such emotional intensity as his must always be "ridden on the curb." | Edith Wharton | ||
| 080f0fa | She had found out that she had given herself to the exclusive and the dowdy when the future belonged to the showy and the promiscuous; that she was in the case of those who have cast in their lot with a fallen cause, | Edith Wharton | ||
| 2868836 | Because it's against the custom of the country. And whose fault is that? The man's again--I don't mean Ralph I mean the genus he belongs to: homo sapiens, Americanus. Why haven't we taught our women to take an interest in our work? Simply because we don't take enough interest in THEM. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 0d606d0 | Isn't that the key to our easy divorces? If we cared for women in the old barbarous possessive way do you suppose we'd give them up as readily as we do? The real paradox is the fact that the men who make, materially, the biggest sacrifices for their women, should do least for them ideally and romantically. And what's the result--how do the women avenge themselves? All my sympathy's with them, poor deluded dears, when I see their fallacious .. | Edith Wharton | ||
| ba65a95 | She would not take more risks than she could help, and it was admiration, not love, that she wanted. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 5c87d53 | In the joy of her gratified desires she wanted to make everybody about her happy. If only everyone would do as she wished she would never be unreasonable. She much preferred to see smiling faces about her, and her dread of the reproachful and dissatisfied countenance gave the measure of what she would do to avoid it. | Edith Wharton | ||
| d7b1a7f | But is it necessary," he urged, "to confound Christ with His ministers, the law with its exponents? May not men preserve their hope of heaven and yet lead more endurable lives on earth?" "Ah, my child, beware, for this is the heresy of private judgment, which has already drawn down thousands into the pit. It is one of the most insidious errors in which the spirit of evil has ever masqueraded; for it is based on the fallacy that we, blind cr.. | Edith Wharton | ||
| aa62302 | plunged out into the winter night bursting with the belated eloquence of the inarticulate. | Edith Wharton | ||
| c46d4a7 | He had grown up among people to whom such emotions were unknown. The old Marquess's passion for his fields and woods was the love of the agriculturist and the hunter, not that of the naturalist or the poet; and the aristocracy of the cities regarded the country merely as so much soil from which to draw their maintenance. The gentlefolk never absented themselves from town but for a few weeks of autumn, when they went to their villas for the .. | Edith Wharton | ||
| bb98367 | But in the dissolution of sentimental partnerships it is seldom that both associates are able to withdraw their funds at the same time; and Glennard gradually learned that he stood for the venture on which Mrs. Aubyn had irretrievably staked her all. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 57ab424 | Carcel lamp, | Edith Wharton | ||
| c37a7ac | There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle. . . or to be the mirror that reflects it. -- Edith Wharton | Anne Finch | ||
| 86c0db0 | Once a Buddha, always a Buddha, Sam. Dust off some of your old parables. You have about fifteen minutes." Sam held out his hand. "Give me some tobacco and a paper." He accepted the package, rolled himself a cigarette. "Light? ...Thanks." | Roger Zelazny | ||
| 3d01865 | To kheirotero otan kaneis to kathekon sou einai oti ginesai prophanos akatallelos gia otidepote allo. Toulakhiston aute etan e apopse pou eikhan uiothetesei oi anthropoi tes genias tou. O saphes diakhorismos anamesa sto kalo kai to kako, to entimo kai to anentimo, to axioprepes kai to anaxioprepes eikhe aphesei polu ligo khoro gia to aproblepto. Uparkhoun stigmes pou e phantasia enos anthropou, eno upotassetai toso eukola se o,ti zei, ortho.. | life love society | Edith Wharton | |
| afd6f96 | the only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it. | Edith Wharton |