661 Quotes by Edith Wharton

I can't love you unless I give you up.

...её... память не соответствовала широте её интересов. (О миссис Хикс)

Don't you know how, in talking a foreign language, even fluently, one says half the time not what one wants to but what one can?

Believe me, all of you, the best way to help the places we live in is to be glad we live there.

What she craved and really felt herself entitled to was a situation in which the noblest attitude should also be the easiest.

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.

Oh, Gerty, I wasn't meant to be good.

He felt himself flung back on all the ugly uncertainties from which he thought he had cast loose forever. After all, what did he know of her life? Only as much as she had chosen to show him, and measured by the world's estimate, how little that was!

Though usually adroit enough where her own interests were concerned, she made the mistake, not uncommon to persons in whom the social habits are instinctive, of supposing that the inability to acquire them quickly implies a general dulness. Because a bluebottle bangs irrationally against a window-pane, the drawing-room naturalist may forget that under less artificial conditions it is capable of measuring distances and drawing conclusions with all the accuracy needful to its welfare...