50 ordspråk av Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton föddes den 24 januari 1862 och dog den 11 augustus 1937 - and short-story writer.
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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.

Vane

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.

Mrs. Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet it alone.

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.

It seemed to him that the tie between husband and wife, even if breakable in prosperity, should be indissoluble in misfortune.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

Disciplin

He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime

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.

Liv

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.

. . . 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.

I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners, crass landscape!! What a horror it is for a whole nation to be developing without the sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.

It would presently be his task to take the bandage from this young woman's eyes, and bid her look forth on the world. But how many generations of the women who had gone to her making had descended bandaged to the family vault? He shivered a little, remembering some of the new ideas in his scientific books, and the much-cited instance of the Kentucky cave-fish, which had ceased to develop eyes because they had no use for them.

After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.

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