Edith Wharton Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• Life is always either; a tight -rope or a feather-bed . — Give me the tightrope.

  Edith Wharton

  Life, Giving, Bed

• It is the omnipresent rush of water which give the Este Gardens their peculiar character. From the Anio, drawn up the hillside at incalculable cost and labour, a thousand rills gush downward, terrace by terrace, channeling the stone rails of the balusters, leaping from step to step, dripping into mossy conches, flashing in spray from the horns of sea-gods and the jaws of mythical monsters, or forcing themselves in irrepressible overflow down the ivy-matted banks.

  Edith Wharton

  Rain, Character, Garden

• I can't love you unless I give you up.

  Edith Wharton

  Love You, Giving, I Can

  Edith Wharton (2015). “The Age of Innocence”, p.148, Booklassic

• ...and wondering where he had read that clever liars give details, but that the cleverest do not.

  Edith Wharton

  Clever, Liars, Giving

  Edith Wharton (2015). “The Age of Innocence”, p.239, Booklassic

• Staunch & faithful little lovers that they are, they give back a hundred fold every sign of love one ever gives them — & it mitigates the pang of losing them to know how very happy a little affection has made them .

  Edith Wharton

  Giving, Faithful, Lovers

  "The letters of Edith Wharton".

• Life is either always a tight-rope or a featherbed. Give me a tight-rope.

  Edith Wharton

  Inspirational, Life, Giving

• The turnings of life seldon show a sign-post; or rather, though the sign is always there, it is usually placed some distance back, like the notices that give warning of a bad hill or a level railway-crossing.

  Edith Wharton

  Distance, Giving, Warning

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