661 Quotes by Edith Wharton

It frightened him to think what must have gone to the making of her eyes.

As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch. What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath.

Does no one want to know the truth here, Mr Archer? The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!

...life makes ugly faces at us sometimes, I know.

A man doesn't know till he tries it how killing uncongenial work is, and how it destroys the power of doing what one's fit for, even if there's time for both.

Once or twice, in the first days of his marriage, he had asked himself with a slight shiver what would happen if Susy should begin to bore him. The thing had happened to him with other women as to whom his first emotions had not differed in intensity from those she inspired.

...жить, как живут рабочие, в двух комнатах, без прислуги... (Сюзи Бранч - Стреффорду)

Her whole being dilated in an atmosphere of luxury. It was the background she required, the only climate she could breathe in.

...богатые бездельники, деятельный народ, который, за неимением занятий, бесконечно кружил по свету, гонимый невесть каким зудом.