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Beauty (was)a gift which, in the eyes of New York, justified every success, and excused a certain number of failings.
— Edith Wharton
It was easy enough to despise the world, but decidedly difficult to find any other habitable region.
— Edith Wharton
Reality has actually very little to do with truth; there is no necessary connection between the two.
— Edith Hamilton
I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of catfish.
— Edith Sitwell
You thought I was a lovelorn mistress and I was really just an expensive prostitute.
— Edith Wharton
One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.
— Edith Wharton
I may say that I think greed about poetry is the only permissible greed - it is, indeed, unavoidable.
— Edith Sitwell
She would not have put herself out so much to say so little.
— Edith Wharton
Make ones center of life inside ones self, not selfishly or excludingly, but with a kind of unassailable serenity.
— Edith Wharton
The great sins and fires break out of me like the terrible leaves from the bough in the violent spring. I am a walking fire, I am all leaves ...
— Edith Sitwell
Poetry is the deification of reality.
— Edith Sitwell
The Greeks were realists. They saw the beauty of common things and were content with it.
— Edith Hamilton
When we think of cruelty, we must try to remember the stupidity, the envy, the frustration from which it has arisen.
— Edith Sitwell
I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.
— Edith Sitwell
A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.
— Edith Sitwell
Our word 'idiot' comes from the Greek name for the man who took no share in public matters.
— Edith Hamilton
Of all our sunny world, i wish only for a garden sofa where a cat is sunning itself
— Edith Sodergran
Man is a greater thing than you have thought him,
— Edith Hahn Beer
Responsibility is the price every man must pay for freedom.
— Edith Hamilton
He was there beside her; yet she was far away from him, alone with her outraged love and her ruined life.
— Edith Hamilton
Still she wondered: did the present deliver up the future, or must you chase your destiny like a harpoonist?
— Edith Pearlman
It is by our power to suffer, above all, that we are of more value than the sparrows.
— Edith Hamilton
She's a monstrously perfect result of the system: the completest proof of its triumph
— Edith Wharton
Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.
— Edith Wharton
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Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of her life.
— Edith Wharton
None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.
— Edith Hamilton
Even in houses commonly held to be 'booky' one finds, nine times out of ten, not a library but a book-dump.
— Edith Wharton
Most women dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous reincarnation, or hope to be one in the next.
— Edith Sitwell
The boy was not insensitive, he knew; but he had the facility and self-confidence that came of looking at fate not as a master but as an equal.
— Edith Wharton
The poet is the complete lover of mankind.
— Edith Sitwell
Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
— Edith Wharton
Even women have been known to enjoy the privileges of a flat.
— Edith Wharton
Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.
— Edith Wharton
Drugs are a carnival in hell.
— Edith Piaf
I have a terrible memory; I never forget a thing.
— Edith Konecky
Cowardly thoughts, anxious hesitation, Womanish timidity, timorous complaints Won't keep misery away from you And will not set you free.
— Edith Hahn Beer
To your generation, I must represent the literary equivalent of tufted furniture and gas chandeliers.
— Edith Wharton
But he could never be long without trying to find a reason for what she was doing ...
— Edith Wharton
The fact that he and she understood each other without a word seemed to bring them nearer than any explanation would have done.
— Edith Wharton
It makes sense that there is no sense without God.
— Edith Schaeffer
I can't stop while there are lives to be saved.
— Edith Cavell
No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity
— Edith Wharton
I don't want to die an old lady.
— Edith Piaf
People struggled on for years with 'troubles,' but they almost always succumbed to 'complications.
— Edith Wharton
We hold there is no worse enemy to a state than he who keeps the law in his own hands.
— Edith Hamilton
It's you who are telling me; opening my eyes to things I'd looked at so long that I'd ceased to see them.
— Edith Wharton
I read them (articles TR wrote on his honeymoon) all over to Edith and her corrections and help were most valuable to me.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
Her vivid smile was like a light held up to dazzle me.
— Edith Wharton
is probable that, like the illustrious author of the drama, all were unconscious of any incongruity between their sentiments and actions.
— Edith Wharton
I live by Edith Wharton's rule to get rid of anything neither useful nor beautiful. So I put the TV out on the street.
— Melissa Bank
Myths are early science, the result of men's first trying to explain what they saw around them.
— Edith Hamilton
Women ought to be free - as free as we are,' he declared, making a discovery of which he was too irritated to measure the terrific consequences.
— Edith Wharton
Oh, I am - it's much safer to be fond of dangerous people.
— Edith Wharton
How I hate everything!
— Edith Wharton
To be successful in my native France, where people speak the same language and understand me, is nothing.
— Edith Piaf
A man without fear cannot be a slave.
— Edith Hamilton
Life is made up of compromises.
— Edith Wharton
A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys.
— Edith Wharton
As far as I'm concerned, love means fighting, big fat lies, and a couple of slaps across the face.
— Edith Piaf
Our blindest impulses become evidence of perspicacity when they fall in with the course of events.
— Edith Wharton
The love of my life came notAs love unto others is cast;
For mine was a secret wound--
But the wound grew a pearl, at last. — Edith Matilda Thomas
Convention (is) so often a mask for injustice.
— Edith Hamilton
The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm is one of the most inveterate of human instincts. -The Decoration of Houses
— Edith Wharton
Alex Robichek had survived their Italian exile; that Uncle Richard and Aunt Roszi were safe in Sacramento.
— Edith Hahn Beer
Some things are best mended by a break.
— Edith Wharton
In the rotation of crops there was a recognised season for wild oats; but they were not to be sown more than once.
— Edith Wharton
The longed-for ships come empty home, founder on the deepAnd eyes first lose their tears and then their sleep. — Edith Wharton
There are lots of ways of answering a letter - and writing doesn't happen to be mine.
— Edith Wharton
Every one in polite circles knew that, in America, "a gentleman couldn't go into politics." But,
— Edith Wharton
But these backwaters of existence sometimes breed, in their sluggish depths, strange acuities of emotion ... ("Afterward")
— Edith Wharton
Let's get you one, Anna.""A lover?"
Edith rolled her eyes. "No. A fucking houseplant. Yes, a lover." Edith smirked. "It'll cheer you up! — Jill Alexander Essbaum
If certain critics and poetasters had their way, 'Ordinary Piety' and its child, Dullness, would be the masters of poetry.
— Edith Sitwell
It was harder to drown at sunrise than in darkness.
— Edith Wharton
That very afternoon they had seemed full of brilliant qualities; now she saw that they were merely dull in a loud way.
— Edith Wharton
Kiss me yet once again, the last, long kiss, Until I draw your soul within my lips And drink down all your love.
— Edith Hamilton
The god of music dwelleth out of doors.
— Edith M. Thomas
