There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
-- Age And Aging |
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.
-- America |
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.
-- Bankers And Banking |
After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
-- Critics And Criticism |
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Mrs. Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet it alone.
-- Culture |
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.
-- Decisions |
A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.
-- Divorce |
My first few weeks in America are always miserable, because the tastes I am cursed with are all of a kind that cannot be gratified here, and I am not enough in sympathy with our ''gross public'' to make up for the lack on the aesthetic side. One's friends are delightful; but we are none of us Americans, we don't think or feel as the Americans do, we are the wretched exotics produced in a European glass-house, the most displaced and useless class on earth!
-- Exile |
Edith Wharton
1862-1937, American Author
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