Edith Wharton citáty
Edith Wharton
Datum narození: 24. leden 1862
Datum úmrtí: 11. srpen 1937
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Citáty Edith Wharton
„A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.“
— Edith Wharton
"The Other Two," ch. 1, from The Descent of Man and Other Stories http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/tdmos10.txt (1904)
„I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, & consequently suggests more tugging, & pain, & diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.“
— Edith Wharton
Letter to John Hugh Smith (12 February 1909), published in The Letters of Edith Wharton (1988)
„He had come on her that morning in a moment of disarray; her face had been pale and altered, and the diminution of her beauty had lent her a poignant charm. That is how she looks when she is alone! had been his first thought; and the second was to note in her the change which his coming produced.“
— Edith Wharton, book The House of Mirth
"The House of Mirth" http://www.readprint.com/chapter-10542/The-House-of-Mirth-Edith-Wharton (1905), bk. 1, ch. 6
„To James's intimates, however, these elaborate hesitancies, far from being an obstacle, were like a cobweb bridge flung from his mind to theirs, an invisible passage over which one knew that silver-footed ironies, veiled jokes, tiptoe malices, were stealing to explode a huge laugh at one's feet.“
— Edith Wharton
A Backward Glance http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200271.txt (1934), Ch. 8
„The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.“
— Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
The Age of Innocence (1920), Ch. 34
„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.“
— Edith Wharton
A Backward Glance http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200271.txt (1934), "A First Word"
„I was never allowed to read the popular American children's books of my day because, as my mother said, the children spoke bad English without the author's knowing it.“
— Edith Wharton
A Backward Glance http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200271.txt (1934), Ch. 3
„It was part of her discernment to be aware that life is the only real counselor, that wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissues.“
— Edith Wharton
Sanctuary http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/wharton/books/snctr10.txt, (1903) part II, ch. IV
„True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.“
— Edith Wharton
The Writing of Fiction (1925), ch. I
„In the rotation of crops there was a recognized season for wild oats; but they were not sown more than once.“
— Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
The Age of Innocence (1920), Ch. 31
„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
The Children http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks04/0400741.txt (1928), ch. XXV
„Mrs. Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet it alone.“
— Edith Wharton
"Xingu" http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/wharton/books/xingu.htm (1911), from Xingu and Other Stories (1916)
