Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Edith Wharton
Age: 75 †
Born: 1862
Born: January 24
Died: 1937
Died: August 11
Novelist
Poet
Prosaist
Translator
Writer
New York City
New York
Edith Newbold Jones
Edith Newbold Jones Wharton
Less
Carry
Felt
Sky
Away
Sea
Seems
Empty
Earth
Seem
Enclosed
Might
Rest
Spot
Way
Simply
Walked
World
Vision
Spots
More quotes by Edith Wharton
Each time you happen to me all over again.
Edith Wharton
Life has a way of overgrowing its achievements as well as its ruins.
Edith Wharton
She threw back her head with a laugh that made her chins ripple like little waves.
Edith Wharton
If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.
Edith Wharton
It was harder to drown at sunrise than in darkness.
Edith Wharton
Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any.
Edith Wharton
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
He bent and laid his lips on her hands, which were cold and lifeless. She drew them away, and he turned to the door, found his coat and hat under the faint gas-light of the hall, and plunged out into the winter night bursting with the belated eloquence of the inarticulate.
Edith Wharton
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
It is almost as stupid to let your clothes betray that you know you are ugly as to have them proclaim that you think you are beautiful.
Edith Wharton
One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.
Edith Wharton
He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.
Edith Wharton
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.
Edith Wharton
The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
Edith Wharton
And he felt himself oppressed by this creation of factitious purity, so cunningly manufactured by a conspiracy of mothers and aunts and grandmothers and long-dead ancestresses, because it was supposed to be what he wanted, what he had a right to, in order that he might exercise his lordly pleasure in smashing it like an image made of snow.
Edith Wharton
traditions that have lost their meaning are the hardest of all to destroy.
Edith Wharton
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
Yes, one gets over things. But there are certain memories one can't bit on.
Edith Wharton
I discovered early that crying makes my nose red, and the knowledge has helped me through several painful episodes.
Edith Wharton
There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when we were all feeding off their gold plate not now! At present they have not only my sympathy but my preference. They are the last representatives of our native industries.
Edith Wharton
