“ I don't want them to think that we dress like savages,' she replied, with a scorn that Pocahontas might have resented; and he was struck again by the religious reverence of even the most unworldly Ame… Edith Wharton
“ But these backwaters of existence sometimes breed, in their sluggish depths, strange acuities of emotion... (Afterward) Edith Wharton
“ Don't tell me, Mrs. Archer would say to herchildren, all this modern newspaper rubbishabout a New York aristocracy. If there is one,neither the Mingotts nor the Mansons belong toit; no, nor the Newlan… Edith Wharton
“ Though usually adroit enough where her own interests were concerned, she made the mistake, not uncommon to persons in whom the social habits are instinctive, of supposing that the inability to acquire… Edith Wharton
“ Believe me, all of you, the best way to help the places we live in is to be glad we live there. Edith Wharton
“ Yes, you have been away a very long time. Oh, centuries and centuries; so long, she said, that I’m sure I’m dead and buried, and this dear old place is heaven; Edith Wharton
“ It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness. Edith Wharton
“ So close to the powers of evil she must have lived that she still breathed more freely in their air. Edith Wharton
“ The blast that swept him came off New Hampshire snow-fields and ice-hung forests. It seemed to have traversed interminable leagues of frozen silence, filling them with the same cold roar and sharpenin… Edith Wharton
“ The noble buoyancy of her attitude, its suggestion of soaring grace, revealed the touch of poetry in her beauty that Selden always felt in her presence, yet lost the sense of when he was not with her.… Edith Wharton
“ How beautiful it was---and how she loved beauty! She had always felt that her sensibility in this direction made up for certain obtuseness of feeling of which she was less proud. Edith Wharton
“ In the rosy glow it diffused her companions seemed full of amiable qualities. She liked their elegance; their lightness, their lack of emphasis: even the self-assurance which at times was so like obtu… Edith Wharton
“ Intelligent and cultivated people of either sex will never limit themselves to communing with their own households. Men and women equally, when they have the range of interests that real cultivation g… Edith Wharton
“ Refurbished that image of herself in other minds which was her only notion of self-seeing Edith Wharton
“ Xingu! she scoffed. Why, it was the fact of our knowing so much more about it than she did—unprepared though we were—that made Osric Dane so furious. I should have thought that was plain enough to eve… Edith Wharton
“ The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend! Edith Wharton
“ They who exchange their independence for the sweet name of Wife must be prepared to find all is not gold that glitters......Eş gibi tatlı bir kelime karşılığında özgürlüklerinden vazgeçenler, parlayan… Edith Wharton
“ But he could never be long without trying to find a reason for what she was doing . . . Edith Wharton
