The 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. What a man can't remember doesn't exist for him.

Robert Ludlum

#6. I truly believe that my songs bring the answers and the solutions, as opposed to just talking about the problems. My music at its core is joyful.

Yolanda Adams

#7. 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

#8. 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

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

Edith Wharton

#10. Some printed pages are medical plasters to extract pain, others are tourists' tickets out of boredom or loneliness to exhilarating adventures, still others are diplomas for promotion and drilling ideas into a quick-step.

Molly Guptill Manning

#11. It's a wonderful world. It may destroy itself but you'll be able to watch it all on TV.

Bob Hope

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

Edith Wharton

#15. Even now, we have laryngitis from screaming at each other: the dirty little secret of a durable marriage.

Erica Jong

#16. Little-known fact about cheerleaders: They keep schedules that would make grown marines cry.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#17. 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

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

Edith Wharton

#19. All change is change for the better. There is no such thing as "change for the worse." Change is the process of Life Itself, and that process could be called by the name 'evolution.' And evolution moves in only one direction: forward, and toward improvement.

Neale Donald Walsch

#20. 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

#21. When our heart is closed, it can create a lonely and isolated feeling together with the attitude: "Nobody loves me" or "Nobody cares about me", which can make it hard for other people to love us.

Swami Dhyan Giten