And you'll sit beside me, and we'll look, not at visions, but at realities. Edith Wharton More Quotes by Edith Wharton More Quotes From Edith Wharton One of the first obligations of art is to make all useful things beautiful. Edith Wharton beautiful art firsts [I]t's safer to be fond of dangerous people. Edith Wharton dangerous people There's nothing grimmer than the tragedy that wears a comic mask. Edith Wharton mask comic tragedy His whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled before him; and passing down its endless emptiness he saw the dwindling figure of a man to whom nothing was ever to happen. Edith Wharton emptiness saws men Then stay with me a little longer,' Madame Olenska said in a low tone, just touching his knee with her plumed fan. It was the lightest touch, but it thrilled him like a caress. Edith Wharton touching fans littles I was a failure in Boston...because they thought I was too fashionable to be intelligent, and a failure in New York because they were afraid I was too intelligent to be fashionable. Edith Wharton boston intelligent new-york It was amusement enough to be with a group of fearless and talkative girls, who said new things in a new language, who were ignorant of tradition and unimpressed by distinctions of rank; but it was soon clear that their young hostesses must be treated with the same respect, if not with the same ceremony as English girls of good family. Edith Wharton fearless ignorant girl Charity, till then, had been conscious only of a vague self-disgust and a frightening physical distress; now, of a sudden, there came to her the grave surprise of motherhood. Edith Wharton charity motherhood self Archer reddened to the temples but dared not move or speak: it was as if her words had been some rare butterfly that the least motion might drive off on startled wings, but that might gather a flock if it were left undisturbed. Edith Wharton archer butterfly moving They are all alike you know. They hold their tongues for years and you think you're safe, but when the opportunity comes they remember everything. Edith Wharton remembers-everything opportunity thinking Since the Americans have ceased to have dyspepsia, they have lost the only thing that gave them any expression. Edith Wharton united-states expression lost Beauty (was)a gift which, in the eyes of New York, justified every success, and excused a certain number of failings. Edith Wharton eye new-york numbers The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background. Edith Wharton landscape literature mind I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views. Edith Wharton political literature views Staunch & faithful little lovers that they are, they give back a hundred fold every sign of love one ever gives them — & it mitigates the pang of losing them to know how very happy a little affection has made them . Edith Wharton faithful lovers giving To your generation, I must represent the literary equivalent of tufted furniture and gas chandeliers. Edith Wharton gas furniture generations She said she knew we were safe with you, and always would be, because once, when she asked you to, you'd given up the thing you most wanted." Archer received this strange communication in silence. His eyes remained unseeingly fixed on the thronged sunlit square below the window. At length he said in a low voice: "She never asked me. Edith Wharton archer communication eye Through this atmosphere of torrid splendor moved wan beings as richly upholstered as the furniture, beings without definite pursuits or permanent relations, who drifted on a languid tide of curiosity... Somewhere behind them, in the background of their lives there was doubtless a real past, yet they had no more real existence than the poet's shades in limbo. Edith Wharton atmosphere real past How I hate everything! Edith Wharton i-hate hate She wanted, passionately and persistently, two things which she believed should subsist together in any well-ordered life: amusement and respectability. Edith Wharton amusement together two
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