Edith Wharton Quotes

“His European visits were infrequent enough to have kept unimpaired the freshness of his eye, and he was always struck anew by the vast and consummately ordered spectacle of Paris: by its look of having been boldly and deliberately planned as a background for the enjoyment of life, instead of being forced into grudging concessions to the festive instincts, or barricading itself against them in unenlightened ugliness, like his own lamentable New York.”
― Edith Wharton, Edith Wharton: 14 Great Novels

“Week after week he swung between the extremes of hope and dejection,”
― Edith Wharton, Edith Wharton: 14 Great Novels

“It seemed to her the diabolical instrument of their estrangement.”
― Edith Wharton, Edith Wharton: 14 Great Novels

“and strolled into the other room.”
― Edith Wharton, Edith Wharton: 14 Great Novels