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Edith-wharton

Edith Wharton
(American Author)

Date of Birth:: January 24, 1862
Date of Death:: August 11, 1937
Nationality:: American
Quote count:: 46
Times favorited:: 34

Edith Wharton was an American novelist, short story writer and designer.

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Edith Wharton

“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.”

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Edith Wharton

“. . . 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.”

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Edith Wharton

“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.”

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Edith Wharton

“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.”

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Edith Wharton

“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.”

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Edith Wharton

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

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Edith Wharton

“But marriage is a one long sacrifice.”

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Edith Wharton

“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.”

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“How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be ''American'' before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, and having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries?”

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Edith Wharton

“Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.”

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