Author of quotes: Edith Wharton. Page 2

So, not great, but just an ordinary, modest, average human love. And she came to Susie's just so stunning, with a face so serious, a touch so scary that SUSY stood as if petrified, because at first glance, realizing that what had once taken for love was simply the enjoyment of spring and the fragrance of youth.
But how was I to know? Now it's too late! - she moaned.

But no! True love, great love, the love that poets sing, love is in the air and anguish lived for it and died from it, such love is its highest expression and reliable set of tools. The fine art of coquetry no further from it than the numbness of untrained girls. Great love has the wisdom, strength, power, like talent, like any other higher form physical abilities. She is confident, knows what she wants and how to achieve their goal.

She believed that you loved him first; for, if not love, you could call it that attracted her to him that taught her how to overcome his doubts and to engage with him in a crazy adventure? But if that was love, now - something so much greater and deeper than that of the previous sense left to say, just played in her blood as it...

The tragedy of their short marriage was that love for her awakened in him a thirst for the ideal that she could not match. He fell in love with her because she, like he himself, was cheerful, without prejudices and free from illusions, but he could not love her more, while she will remain the same. From this circle had no choice, and he with infinite despair revolved in it.

In the end, if one denies everything, it poisons his health and character.

In the end, most people go through life making a given set of movements, like dance steps, memorized in advance. If in your textbook, dance said, at a certain time, to be determined, you must become one automatically...

Human habits are stronger than the Egyptian pyramids.

... when you forget, then at least you're not in anyone's way.

... those who agree to share the bread of poverty, may not want to share the pie of prosperity.

I'll tell you, this freedom is a great thing! In modern times everything is different, why would marriage change? A person can terminate the business cooperation; but the priests want to tie us to each other for life because once we came into the Church and said to one of them "Yes." No, no, no... that's too easy. We have already gone far ahead. Science and all these new discoveries... you Know, the ten commandments were made for man, not man for the commandments; at least, they never said a word against divorce! I say this to my poor old mother, which all relies on the Bible. Show me where it said, "don't divorce". It infuriates her, poor old creature, because she could not find words; and she does not know how did not included this item... I think Moses did not include it for the reason that knew human nature better than these hypocritical whiners - current priests. <...> He live and others to live do not bother, right, Susie? Do we all have no right to passions?

... common sense - an argument at odds.

... the transience of human love and makes it so precious. Because we know: it is impossible to keep her, or each other, or anything...

If another does not understand the first word, even at first sight, the subsequent clarification only deepens the misunderstanding.

The construction of what is called character, - the process as slow and heavy, as the construction of the Egyptian pyramids; and he himself, as the horrible buildings, for the most part necessary in order to accommodate their offspring after they too will return to dust. Nevertheless, the instinct of the pyramid is what created the world, created man and kept it a fleeting joy, as the fading frescoes on the walls indestructible...