Edith Wharton Quotes About Eyes

Quotes about: Eyes

• It frightened him to think what must have gone to the making of her eyes.

  Edith Wharton

  Beautiful, Eye, Thinking

  Edith Wharton (2010). “The Age of Innocence”, p.53, Bibliolis Books

• The moment my eyes fell on him, I was content.

  Edith Wharton

  Love, Crush, Eye

  Edith Wharton, Richard Warrington Baldwin Lewis, Nancy Lewis (1988). “The letters of Edith Wharton”, Macmillan Reference USA

• She said she knew we were safe with you, and always would be, because once, when she asked you to, you'd given up the thing you most wanted." Archer received this strange communication in silence. His eyes remained unseeingly fixed on the thronged sunlit square below the window. At length he said in a low voice: "She never asked me.

  Edith Wharton

  Communication, Archer, Eye

  Edith Wharton (2012). “The Age of Innocence”, p.231, Courier Corporation

• “Yes, the Gorgon has dried your tears,” he said. “Well, she opened my eyes too; it's a delusion to say that she blinds people. What she does is just the contrary — she fastens their eyelids open, so that they're never again in the blessed darkness.”

  Edith Wharton

  Blessed, Eye, People

  "Literary Love: 5 Wild and Wanton Classics".

• It's you who are telling me; opening my eyes to things I'd looked at so long that I'd ceased to see them.

  Edith Wharton

  Eye, Long, Opening

  Edith Wharton (2015). “The Age of Innocence”, p.61, Xist Publishing

• The visible world is a daily miracle for those who have eyes and ears; and I still warm hands thankfully at the old fire, though every year it is fed with the dry wood of more old memories.

  Edith Wharton

  Memories, Eye, Fire

  Edith Wharton (1990). “Novellas and Other Writings”, Library of America

• The visible world is a daily miracle, for those who have eyes and ears.

  Edith Wharton

  Eye, Miracle, Ears

  Edith Wharton (2016). “A Backward Glance”, p.285, Edith Wharton

• The essence of taste is suitability. Divest the word of its prim and priggish implications, and see how it expresses the mysterious demand of the eye and mind for symmetry, harmony and order.

  Edith Wharton

  Eye, Order, Essence

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.4504, Delphi Classics

• Set wide the window. Let me drink the day. I loved light ever, light in eye and brain No tapers mirrored in long palace floors, Nor dedicated depths of silent aisles, But just the common dusty wind-blown day That roofs earth's millions.

  Edith Wharton

  Eye, Light, Wind

  Edith Wharton (2002). “Artemis to Actaeon and More: Selected Verse”, p.16, Wildside Press LLC

• Beauty (was)a gift which, in the eyes of New York, justified every success, and excused a certain number of failings.

  Edith Wharton

  New York, Eye, Numbers

  Edith Wharton (2014). “Edith Wharton The Dover Reader”, p.222, Courier Corporation

• Only the fact that we are unaware how well our nearest know us enables us to live with them. Love is the most impregnable refuge of self-esteem, and we hate the eye that reaches to our nakedness. Edith Wharton ~ The Touchstone

  Edith Wharton

  Hate, Self Esteem, Eye

  Edith Wharton (1900). “The Greater Inclination: The Touchstone”

• I am secretly afraid of animals.... I think it is because of the usness in their eyes, with the underlying not-usness which beliesit, and is so tragic a reminder of the lost age when we human beings branched off and left them: left them to eternal inarticulateness and slavery. Why? their eyes seem to ask us.

  Edith Wharton

  Eye, Animal, Thinking

• I think sometimes that it is almost a pity to enjoy Italy as much as I do, because the acuteness of my sensations makes them rather exhausting; but when I see the stupid Italians I have met here, completely insensitive to their surroundings, and ignorant of the treasures of art and history among which they have grown up, I begin to think it is better to be an American, and bring to it all a mind and eye unblunted by custom.

  Edith Wharton

  Art, Stupid, Eye

• Any rapidly enacted episode. . .should be seen through only one pair of eyes.

  Edith Wharton

  Eye, Pairs, Episodes

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