Quotes About Lily Bart

#1. He had always enjoyed Lily Bart; and his course lay so far out of her orbit that it amused him to be drawn for a moment into the sudden intimacy which her proposal implied.

Edith Wharton

#2. But the habit patterns, inevitably, had survived. To the air, with a wry grin, he murmured, "How long, O Lord? How long?" In his private estimation: not long now.

John Brunner

#3. 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

#4. He had a confused sense that she must have cost a great deal to make, that a great many dull and ugly people must, in some mysterious way, have been sacrificed to produce her.

Edith Wharton

#5. Why must a girl pay so dearly for her least escape," Lily muses as she contemplates the prospect of being bored all afternoon by Percy Grice, dull but undeniably rich, "on the bare chance that he might ultimately do her the honor of boring her for life?

Edith Wharton

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

Edith Wharton

#7. Re: cutting glass ... You have to be in command of the glass, telling it where to release its hold on itself. Just like life. Otherwise it will splinter.

Susan Vreeland

#8. Most of us take seeds for granted. The fate of human kind is resting on these genetic
resources: Seeds. So nothing could be more important.

Cary Fowler

#9. I married him because he told me it was the only way he could protect me. If we were just manager and client, my family could do whatever they wanted to get me back, but if I was his wife, they couldn't.

LaToya Jackson

#10. Most computers today have built in backup software.

Barton Gellman

#11. In Community of Caring, we believe the quality of caring we give to our parents, to our brothers and sisters, to our families, to our friends and neighbors, and to the poor and the powerless endows a life, a community with respect, hope and happiness.

Eunice Kennedy Shriver

#12. 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

#13. Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don't pretend to understand.

Harper Lee

#14. I think the jokes would have been a bit broader and a bit more obvious in terms of the day-to-day of country life.

Simon Pegg

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

Edith Wharton