House Of Mirth Quotes

#1. I am very fond of Edith Wharton. She's quite high brow but also a great storyteller. My favorite is 'The House of Mirth.' I also like 'The Reef.'

Ken Follett

#2. I checked out the two Edith Wharton books I had just returned because I'd read them so long ago and they are more apropos now than ever. They were The House of Mirth and The Children, which is about how life in the United States in New York changed in twenty-seven years fifty years ago.
("Wants")

Grace Paley

#3. Yes - it was happiness she still wanted, and the glimpse she had caught of it made everything else of no account. One by one she had detached herself from the baser possibilities , and she saw that nothing now remained to her but the emptiness of renunciation.
The House of Mirth

Edith Wharton

#4. Oh, Gerty, I wasn't meant to be good.

Edith Wharton

#5. To love God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength is all-consuming and all-encompassing. It is no lukewarm endeavor.

Ezra Taft Benson

#6. You asked me just now for the truth
well, the truth about any girl is that once she's talk about she's done for; and the more she explains her case the worse it looks.

Edith Wharton

#7. Overhead hung a summer sky furrowed with the rush of rockets; and from the east a late moon, pushing up beyond the lofty bend of the coast, sent across the bay a shaft of brightness which paled to ashes in the red glitter of the illuminated boats.

Edith Wharton

#8. The most successful people are so original.

Idina Menzel

#9. Ah, he would take her beyond
beyond the ugliness, the pettiness, the attrition and corrosion of her soul.

Edith Wharton

#10. I don't hold Travis anymore, of course- not to read to him, or for any other reason, either. I wish I'd known that the last time was going to be the last time.

Elizabeth Berg

#11. I don't want everybody to see exactly where I live, what my sofa or my fireplace looks like.

Marilyn Monroe

#12. It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness.

Edith Wharton

#13. ...she was like a disembodied spirit who took up a great deal of room

Edith Wharton

#14. Right after 9/11, I mean, every agency can give their own gradation, but a nice, popular rule of thumb is everybody doubled down. I ended up in NSA with about twice as much money as I had prior to 9/11.

Michael Hayden

#15. But he could never be long without trying to find a reason for what she was doing ...

Edith Wharton

#16. I expected it to be overwhelming and all-encompassing, but having a kid brings you into the world in a whole different way.

Laura Fraser

#17. Buddy Holly and the early rock 'n' roll was no lighter than the way I play. It's very minimal.

Joni Mitchell

#18. The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.

Stanley Milgram

#19. I have been everywhere because I don't know what I'm looking for.

E.L. Doctorow

#20. Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of her life.

Edith Wharton

#21. We are expected to be pretty and well-dressed until we drop.

Edith Wharton

#22. How beautiful it was
and how she loved beauty! She had always felt that her sensibility in this direction made up for certain obtuseness of feeling of which she was less proud.

Edith Wharton