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I think my father knew how to be Jewish, but he didn't teach us. He must have thought we would absorb it with our mother's milk.
— Edith Hahn Beer
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
And of what account was anybody's past, in the huge kaleidoscope where all the social atoms spun around on the same plane?
— Edith Wharton
You thought I was a lovelorn mistress and I was really just an expensive prostitute.
— Edith Wharton
To scale all love downTo a cupped hand's size — Edith L. Tiempo
One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.
— Edith Wharton
Yes: I was down there once, and for a good while afterward I could call up the sight of it in winter. But now it's all snowed under.
— Edith Wharton
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
I don't think there's any point in meeting anybody who doesn't like music.
— Edith Bouvier Beale
Poetry is the deification of reality.
— Edith Sitwell
When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.
— Edith Wharton
I have always lived on contrasts! To me the only death is monotony. Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
— Edith Wharton
What's the use - when you will go back? he broke out, a great hopeless How on earth can I keep you? crying out to her beneath his words.
— Edith Wharton
Even the most beautiful legs - Marlene Dietrich's, for instance - look better when the kneecap is covered.
— Edith Head
When a man says he doesn't understand a woman it's because he won't take the trouble.
— Edith Wharton
Ripe summer's sweetness drippedin pearls from every tree
and into my opened heart
a little drop ran down. — Edith Sodergran
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
To have you here, you mean-in reach and yet out of reach? To meet you in this way, on the sly? It's the very reverse of what I want.
— Edith Wharton
Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth. So let's all go exploring.
— Edith Widder
"It is part of the poet's work to show each man what he sees but does not know he sees."
— Edith Sitwell
Moderately wise each one should be, Not overwise, for a wise man's heart Is seldom glad (Norse Wisdom)
— Edith Hamilton
She wondered if, when human souls try to get too near each other, they do not inevitably become mere blurs to each other's vision.
— Edith Wharton
Don't they always go from bad to worse? There's no turning back--yourold self rejects you, and shuts you out. ~Lilly Bart — Edith Wharton
It's very important for a writer to be unnoticed, as quiet and unnoticed as possible.
— Edith Pearlman
Every drop of blood in Lily's veins invited her to happiness.
— Edith Wharton
Virginia Woolf's writing is no more than glamorous knitting. I believe she must have a pattern somewhere.
— Edith Sitwell
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
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
A man without fear cannot be a slave.
— Edith Hamilton
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
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
It was a Roman who said it was sweet to die for one's country. The Greeks never said it was sweet to die for anything. They had no vital lies.
— Edith Hamilton
Edith learned long ago that men are drawn to women who are either undeniably beautiful or alluringly vulnerable. She's never been either.
— Jennie Fields
Ah, good conversation - there's nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
— Edith Wharton
Mr. and Mrs. Wetherall's circle was so large that God was included in their visiting-list.
— Edith Wharton
There are lots of ways of answering a letter - and writing doesn't happen to be mine.
— Edith Wharton
I wonder why rich people always grow fat I suppose it's because there's nothing to worry them.
— Edith Wharton
Courage - that's the secret! If only people who are in love weren't always so afraid of risking their happiness by looking it in the eyes.
— Edith Wharton
Life's just a perpetual piecing together of broken bits.
— Edith Wharton
The Old Testament is the record of men's conviction that God speaks directly to men.
— Edith Hamilton
It's the worst thing that ever happened to anybody in America!
— Edith Bouvier Beale
Of course he's good-he's too stupid to be bad
— Edith Wharton
The real alchemy consists in being able to turn gold back again into something else; and that's the secret that most of your friends have lost.
— Edith Wharton
What is truth? Where a woman is concerned, it's the story that's easiest to believe.
— Edith Wharton
After all, marriage is marriage, and money's money - both useful things in their way ...
— Edith Wharton
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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
She's a monstrously perfect result of the system: the completest proof of its triumph
— Edith Wharton
