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Letter "E" » Edith Wharton Quotes
«They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods»
«He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime»
Author: Edith Wharton
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
all at once, inarticulate, Once in a Lifetime, packed, regrets, stifled
«True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.»
«The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.»
«Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.»
Author: Edith Wharton
(Novelist)
| About:
Experience,
Life
| Keywords:
counselor, Personal experience, Real part, tissue, tissues
«Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.»
Author: Edith Wharton
(Novelist)
| About:
Habit
| Keywords:
fought, incessantly, rut, ruts, trail, trails, turning
«The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.»
«I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.»
Author: Edith Wharton
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
coil, coiled, Coils, consequently, diversified, diversifies, diversify, elements, knots, suggests, tangle, tangles, tangle with, This Mortal Coil, tie, tighter, tug, tugging, tugs, undo
«. . . an unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.»
Author: Edith Wharton
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
English-speaking, English Law, German, operas, Sung, Swedish, text, unalterable, unquestioned
«The mere idea of a woman's appealing to her family to screen her husband's business dishonour was inadmisible, since it was the one thing that the Family, as an institution, could not do.»
Author: Edith Wharton
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
appealing, dishonour, family business, Her husband, institution, screen
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