Edith Wharton Quotes

“A woman's standard of truthfulness was tacitly held to be lower: she was the subject creature, and versed in the arts of the enslaved.”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

topic:truth woman slavery

“The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

topic:truth loneliness

“Women ought to be free—as free as we are”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

topic:women freedom

“he wondered at what age 'nice' women began to speak for themselves.”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

topic:women personality

“Ah, no, he did not want May to have that kind of innocence, the innocence that seals the mind against imagination and the heart against experience!”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

topic:heart imagination

“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.”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

topic:understanding music language

“In reality they all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only represented by a set of arbitrary signs”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

topic:reality

“And you'll sit beside me, and we'll look, not at visions, but at realities.”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

topic:reality

“As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch.”

― Edith Wharton, House of Mirth

topic:pain

“it was easy enough to despise the world, but decidedly difficult to find any other habitable region.”

― Edith Wharton, House of Mirth

topic:world living

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