Edith Wharton idézetek
Edith Wharton: Idézetek angolul
“I can't love you unless I give you up.”
Forrás: The Age of Innocence (1920), Ch. 18
“Poetry and art are the breath of life to her.”
Forrás: The Age of Innocence
Forrás: "The House of Mirth" http://books.google.com/books?id=plFdLlYHwZ8C&pg=PA69&lpg=PA69&dq=No+insect+hangs+its+nest+on+threads+as+frail+as+those+which+will+sustain+the+weight+of+human+vanity.&source=bl&ots=j0EPPhjIZW&sig=MQMjyNy5yKK97Ok4bGqRWfC3obE&hl=en&ei=T5F0TMqyMIuisAOczpyMBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CCEQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=No%20insect%20hangs%20its%20nest%20on%20threads%20as%20frail%20as%20those%20which%20will%20sustain%20the%20weight%20of%20human%20vanity.&f=false (1905), ch. X, pg. 69
Letter to Upton Sinclair (19 August 1927)
“The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.”
The House of Mirth http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext95/hmirt10.txt (1905), bk.1, ch. 6
Walt Whitman, "Song of the Open Road" http://www.bartleby.com/142/82., 12, Leaves of Grass (1855)
Misattributed
Nadine Gordimer, "The Essential Gesture: Writers and Responsibility" http://www.tannerlectures.utah.edu/lectures/gordimer85.pdf, The Tanner Lectures on Human Values, University of Michigan (12 October 1984), p. 9
Misattributed
“There's no such thing as old age; there is only sorrow.”
"A First Word"
A Backward Glance http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200271.txt (1934)
"Xingu" http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/wharton/books/xingu.htm (1911), from Xingu and Other Stories (1916)
The Children http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks04/0400741.txt (1928), ch. XXV