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 There was no use in trying to emancipate a wife who had not the dimmest notion that she was not free. Edith Wharton wife use trying traditions that have lost their meaning are the hardest of all to destroy. Edith Wharton hardest tradition lost Genius is of small use to a woman who does not know how to do her hair. Edith Wharton women doe hair The turnings of life seldon show a sign-post; or rather, though the sign is always there, it is usually placed some distance back, like the notices that give warning of a bad hill or a level railway-crossing. Edith Wharton distance warning giving You thought I was a lovelorn mistress; and I was only an expensive prostitute. Edith Wharton mistress expensive He had married (as most young men did) because he had met a perfectly charming girl at the moment when a series of rather aimless sentimental adventures were ending in premature disgust; and she had represented peace, stability, comradeship, and the steadying sense of an unescapable duty. Edith Wharton girl adventure men I was never allowed to read the popular American children's books of my day because, as my mother said, the children spoke bad English without the author's knowing it. Edith Wharton mother book children There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny. Edith Wharton fate destiny men In every heart there should be one grief that is like a well in the desert. Edith Wharton desert grief heart Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths? Edith Wharton illusion mean ideas But after a moment a sense of waste and ruin overcame him. There they were, close together and safe and shut in; yet so chained to their separate destinies that they might as well been half the world apart. Edith Wharton destiny half together Inkstands and tea-cups are never as full as when one upsets them. Edith Wharton inanimate-objects upset tea If proportion is the good breeding of architecture, symmetry, or the answering of one part to another, may be defined as the sanity of decoration. Edith Wharton sanity architecture may My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet. Edith Wharton dog animal love Who's 'they'? Why don't you all get together and be 'they' yourselves? Edith Wharton get-together together She had been bored all afternoon by Percy Gryce... but she could not ignore him on the morrow, she must follow up her success, must submit to more boredom, must be ready with fresh compliances and adaptibilities, and all on the bare chance that he might ultimately decide to do her the honour of boring her for life. Edith Wharton afternoon boredom might He simply felt that if he could carry away the vision of the spot of earth she walked on, and the way the sky and sea enclosed it, the rest of the world might seem less empty. Edith Wharton vision sea sky After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others. Edith Wharton weak-points glitter criticism Set wide the window. Let me drink the day. I loved light ever, light in eye and brain No tapers mirrored in long palace floors, Nor dedicated depths of silent aisles, But just the common dusty wind-blown day That roofs earth's millions. Edith Wharton light eye wind The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it. Edith Wharton money literature thinking
