48 ordspråk av Edith Wharton

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Edith Wharton föddes den January 24th 1862 och dog den 11 August 1937 - and short-story writer.
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 Nothing could more clearly give the measure of the distance that the world had travelled.

 Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.

 Silence may be as variously shaded as speech

 The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.

 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.

 The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

 The persons of their world lived in an atmosphere of faint implications and pale delicacies, and the fact that he and she understood each other without a word seemed to the young man to bring them nearer than any explanation would have done.

 The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.

 There are moments when a man's imagination so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny

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

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

 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.

 They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods

 Though he turned the pages with the sensuous joy of the book-lover, he did not know what he was reading, and one book after another dropped from his hand. Suddenly, among them, he lit on a small volume of verse which he had ordered because the name had attracted him: "The House of Life." He took it up, and found himself plunged in an atmosphere unlike any he had ever breathed in books; so warm, so rich, and yet so ineffebly tender, that it gave a new and haunting beauty to the most elementary of human passions.

 To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?


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