Quotes About Edith

Corinne suggested a different reason, indicating that her dying father had expressed concern about Theodore's intimacy with Edith, given Charles Carow's fiscal and temperamental instability. If Theodore discussed the issue with Edith that night, he might well have triggered the volatility that he would obscurely explain to Bamie as a clash of tempers "that were far from being of the best.

Have you no errand I can do for you in hell?' he said. 'There's cleaner company there.

It's rather clever of her to have made a specialty of devoting herself to dull people—the field is such a large one, and she has it practically to herself.

Miss Corby's role was jocularity. She always entered the conversation with a handspring.

Theodore," Edith remarked, after he collided with the Sagamore Hill windmill, "I wish you'd do your bleeding in the bathroom.")

What Edith did not yet appreciate was that Wilson was now a man in love, and as White House usher Ike Hoover observed, Wilson was "no mean man in love-making when once the germ has found its resting place.

I always use the word 'houses of prostitution' in talking to Edith, Mrs. Cool." "I don't. I call 'em whorehouses," Bertha said acidly. "It's easier to say. It's more expressive, and it leaves no room for doubt.

Biliyor musunuz," dedi Edith, on dakika süren sessiz iniÅŸten sonra, "Åžu gülümsemenizi birazc?k sevimsiz buluyorum." Mr. Neville'in gülümsemesi yüzüne daha da yay?ld?. "Beni daha iyi tan?d???n?zda," dedi, "GülümseyiÅŸimin gerçekte ne kadar sevimsiz olduÄŸunu anlayacaks?n?z.

The world of the heterosexual is a sick and boring life.

Edith had danced herself into that tired, dreamy state habitual only with débutantes, a state equivalent to the glow of a noble soul after several long highballs.

Lily O'Grady,Silly and shady,Longing to beA lazy lady.

Farmer Landis, and raisin or "Rosina" pie,

Harry lived with an ordinary-looking smart brown dog, named Edith. As happens when one person lives with one dog, the dog became psychic.

In this slipshod age, we need object lessons in language and thought. – Edith Wharton on an address by John Hay

Her life was invariable, like a low hum; and it was watched over by her mother, who, when Edith was a child, would sit for hours watching her paint her pictures or play her piano, as if no other occupation were possible for either of them.

Tony Judt's remarkable 'The Memory Chalet' was written from the prison of mute immobility.

My name is Ruben Blum and I'm an, yes, an historian. But my front-door was locked and I didn't have the key, so I knocked, and as I waited for Edith to let me in, I kept waiving the shovel back at the Sheriff and mumbling, "Turks…what did you expect?…just a bunch of crazy Turks…

She had such control of tone , in her text messages, she was the Edith Wharton of text messaging.

Baby Jane' is a tune, what a sax solo. And The Faces' 'Stay With Me' is amazing.

Y ahí estaba Edith, dorada y radiante como el sol. Romeo había dicho lo mismo de Julieta; ese amor había tenido un destino funesto, pero para ellos…

Dublín. ¿Seguro que todos los espejos están tapados DeWitt? Porque uno nunca sabe. Eso que ni qué. Odian la tumba, los muertos. Y cuando dejas a una niña tan dulce como nuestra Edith… pues, no te vas.