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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7a4a9f8 | to be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it? | Edith Wharton | ||
| 94a280f | v ch'ei manere bylo iz'iasniat'sia otkrovenno, kogda ne bylo prichin, zhiteiskikh ili denezhnykh, o chem to umalchivat'. (O Siuzi Branch) | Edith Wharton | ||
| 8f21071 | udivila ego protivorechivym sochetaniem v nei sovremennogo chuvstva prakticheskoi tselesoobraznosti i staromodnogo poniatiia chestnosti... (Nik Lensing - o Siuzi Branch) | Edith Wharton | ||
| 286a577 | Her entrances were always triumphs; but they had no sequel. As soon as people began to talk they ceased to see her. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 2349cb4 | Drustvo je nebesko telo koje se okrece i treba ga procenjivati na osnovu mesta koje zauzima na nebu svakog pojedinca; a trenutno je svoju svetlost usmeravalo ka Lili. | Edith Wharton | ||
| cc2f6d8 | Ali znate, nas dve smo toliko razlicite: ona voli da bude dobra, a ja volim da budem srecna. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 836f9f7 | Perhaps, if I hadn't been, once before--I mean, if I'd always been a prudent deliberate Ralston, it would have been kinder to Tina in the end." Dr. Lanskell sank his gouty bulk into the chair behind his desk, and beamed at her through ironic spectacles. "I hate in-the-end kindnesses: they're about as nourishing as the third day of cold mutton." | Edith Wharton | ||
| 3430681 | I believe it IS a vice, almost, to read such a book as the 'Letters,'" said Mrs. Touchett. "It's the woman's soul, absolutely torn up by the roots -- her whole self laid bare; and to a man who evidently didn't care; who couldn't have cared. I don't mean to read another line; it's too much like listening at a keyhole." | Edith Wharton | ||
| 9204744 | All the elderly ladies whom Archer knew regarded any woman who loved imprudently as necessarily unscrupulous and designing, and mere simple-minded man as powerless in her clutches. The | Edith Wharton | ||
| 2ae3373 | Rich and idle and ornamental societies must produce many more such situations; | Edith Wharton | ||
| e8d8687 | put into words by this selfish, well-fed, and supremely indifferent old man it suddenly became the Pharisaic voice of a society wholly absorbed in barricading itself against the unpleasant. | Edith Wharton | ||
| ce482a7 | one of the great livery-stableman's most masterly intuitions to have discovered that Americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than they want to get to it. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 46d42c1 | Don't let us be like all the others! she protested. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 62c2166 | In this slipshod age, we need object lessons in language and thought. - Edith Wharton on an address by John Hay | statesmanship-i tact | John Taliaferro | |
| b098514 | Cuando un hombre amaba a una mujer esta siempre tenia la edad que el quisiera; y cuando dejaba de amarla se convertia en demasiado vieja para los hechizos o en demasiado joven para la tecnica . | Edith Wharton | ||
| 469c9fb | Znao je da je nesto propustio: bit zivota. Ali je o njoj sad mislio kao o necemu tako nedostiznom i nevjerojatnom da bi zaliti za njom bilo kao da ocajavas sto na lutriji nisi dobio glavni zgoditak. U njegovoj lutriji bilo je 100 milijuna srecki, a samo jedan dobitak; izgledi su mu zacijelo bili nikakvi. Kad bi mislio na Ellen Olensku, cinio bi to apstraktno spokojno, kao sto bi covjek mogao misliti na kakvu imaginarnu voljenu iz kakve knji.. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 876eeeb | and strolled into the other room. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 7ac319a | You might as well tell me there was nobody but Adam in the garden when Eve picked the apple. You say your wife was discontented? No woman ever knows she's discontented till some man tells her so. My God! I've seen smash-ups before now; but I never yet saw a marriage dissolved like a business partnership. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 86198c3 | But it is comparatively easy to behave beautifully when one is getting what one wants, and when some one else, who has not always been altogether kind, is not. | Edith Wharton | ||
| c4616eb | Nineteenth-century America was gone; twentieth-century America was alien. "All that I thought American in a true sense is gone, and I see nothing but vain-glory, crassness and a total ignorance . . . ," she wrote. She began to reconsider the old, lost world. What had seemed once petty and insular now seemed valuable and dignified; the rules, she saw, had been founded on moral principle. "I am steeping myself in the nineteenth century," she .. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 267bbe5 | There are two ways of spreading light; to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. - Edith Wharton | Amisha Sethi | ||
| 9f83850 | But his marital education had since made strides, and he now knew that a disregard for money may imply not the willingness to get on without it but merely a blind confidence that it will somehow be provided. | Edith Wharton | ||
| c19e5eb | Iar tu ai sa stai langa mine si o sa privim realitatea, nu inchipuirile. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 5c730f1 | The telephone clicked, and Archer, turning from the photographs, unhooked the transmitter at his elbow. How far they were from the days when the legs of the brass-buttoned messenger boy had been New York's only means of quick communication! "Chicago wants you." | Edith Wharton | ||
| 3a9851f | 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. What Claydon read there--or at least such scattered | Edith Wharton | ||
| ef12a67 | In reality they all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only represented by a set of arbitrary signs; as | Edith Wharton | ||
| 39ccc60 | marriage was not the safe anchorage he had been taught to think, but a voyage on uncharted seas. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 4787a0e | Cat de mult se vor putea cunoaste unul pe altul, cand datoria lui de om "cumsecade" era sa nu-i destainuie trecutul, iar a ei, ca fata de maritat, sa nu aiba nici un fel de trecut de ascuns?" | varsta-inocentei | Edith Wharton | |
| 096c4fe | e o fata delicioasa: n-am mai vazut o a doua fiinta atat de desteapta si de draguta. Esti tare indragostit de ea? Newland Archer rase rosind: - Cat poate fi un barbat. | varsta-inocentei | Edith Wharton | |
| f6d839e | E ora mea favorita... nu e si a dumitale? | varsta-inocentei | Edith Wharton | |
| dee3fab | A skeptic of all sentimentality, she has a witty, rueful voice that gives a deadpan appraisal of the past and present. We see the patriotism of World War I turn to chalk as the telegrams begin arriving at home. | Ron Charles | ||
| 6778973 | Undine was fiercely independent and yet passionately imitative. She wanted to surprise every one by her dash and originality, but she could not help modelling 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 | ||
| 2b07392 | It was characteristic of her that she remembered her failures as keenly as her triumphs, and that the passionate desire to obliterate, to "get even" with them, was always among the latent incentives of her conduct." | Edith Wharton | ||
| 9f1cb6c | he mused, thinking of his son as the spokesman of the new generation which had swept away all the old landmarks, and with them the sign-posts and the danger-signal. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 63082c5 | Sa emigreze! Parca un gentleman ar putea sa-si paraseasca patria! | the-age-of-innocence varsta-inocentei | Edith Wharton | |
| e174a2b | legatura dintre sot si sotie, chiar daca se mai putea desface in epocile de prosperitate, era de nedezlegat in momentele de nenorocire. | Edith Wharton | ||
| e4619cc | The impulse behind fantasy I find to be dissatisfaction with literary realism. Realism leaves out so much. Any consensual reality (though wider even than realism) nonetheless leaves out a great deal also. Certainly one solution to the difficulty of treating experience that is not dealt with in the literary tradition, or even in consensual reality itself, is to 'skew' the reality of a piece of fiction, that is, to employ fantasy. Sometimes a.. | realism | Joanna Russ | |
| 3cd4648 | She knew herself by heart too, and was sick of the old story. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 1f833cd | The drawing-room door opened, and two high-stocked and ample-coated young men came in--two Jim Ralstons, so to speak. Delia had never before noticed how much her husband and his cousin Joe were alike: it made her feel how justified she was in always thinking of the Ralstons collectively. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 98d5131 | It was in a tiny Venetian church, no more than a chapel, that Lewis Racie's eyes had been unsealed--in the dull-looking little church not even mentioned in the guidebooks. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 86ea7eb | She was BAD . . . always. They used to meet at the Fifth Avenue Hotel," said my mother, as if the scene of the offence added to the guilt of the couple whose past she was revealing." | Edith Wharton | ||
| 181f1a5 | Emigrate! As if a gentleman could abandon his own country! One could no more do that than one could roll up one's sleeves and go down into the muck. | society | Edith Wharton | |
| c169781 | Chi ama le idee non e destinato a morire di fame. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 0ac978f | Lily's taste of beneficence had wakened in her a momentary appetite for well-doing. Her visit to the Girls' Club had first brought her in contact with the dramatic contrasts of life. She had always accepted with philosophic calm the fact that such existences as hers were pedestalled on foundations of obscure humanity. The dreary limbo of dinginess lay all around and beneath that little illuminated circle in which life reached its finest eff.. | Edith Wharton |