Obras
Ethan Frome
Edith WhartonThe Age of Innocence
Edith WhartonEdith Wharton Frases famosas
“Há duas maneiras de espalhar a luz: ser a vela, ou o espelho que a reflete.”
"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle, or the mirror that reflects it".
Ethan Frome - Página vii, Edith Wharton - EMC/Paradigm Pub., 1998, ISBN 0821916491, 9780821916490 - 128 páginas
“Ele desejava-a tal como ela era e não como ela gostaria de ter sido.”
that he wanted her as she was, and not as she would have liked to be
The roof: a novel - Página 121, Edith Wharton - Syndicate pub. co., 1912 - 366 páginas
Edith Wharton: Frases em inglês
“She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making.”
Fonte: The House of Mirth
“Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any.”
Fonte: The House of Mirth
"Vesalius in Zante (1564)" http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/wharton/whartpoe2.htm#Vesalius%20in%20Zante.%20(1564), in North American Review (November 1902), p. 625
Fonte: Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verses
“Each time you happen to me all over again.”
Fonte: The Age of Innocence
Fonte: Ethan Frome and Other Short Fiction
“There are two ways of spreading light: to be
The candle or the mirror that reflects it.”
"Vesalius in Zante (1564)", in North American Review (November 1902), p. 631
Variante: There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it.
“The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!”
Fonte: The Age of Innocence
“We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?”
Fonte: The Age of Innocence
"A First Word"
A Backward Glance http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200271.txt (1934)
“Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any.”
Fonte: The House of Mirth