1. Frasi
  2. Autori
  3. Edith Wharton

Frasi di Edith Wharton
pagina 2

Edith Wharton è stata una scrittrice statunitense.

✵ 24. Gennaio 1862 – 11. Agosto 1937  •  Altri nomi Edith Newbold Jones Wharton
Edith Wharton photo
Edith Wharton: 111 citazioni3 Mi piace

Edith Wharton frasi celebri

“Le buttò indietro la testa per mettere in risalto la curva del collo e prese a baciarla sotto l'orecchio, sui capelli, sugli occhi e sulle labbra. La ragazza gli si aggrappò disperatamente e, mentre Harney l'attirava sulle ginocchia, ebbe la sensazione di essere risucchiata insieme a lui in un abisso senza fondo.”

Edith Wharton

cap. XIV, p. 123
Estate

“L'illusione di poter coltivare un'amicizia era svanita e la scena avvenuta al molo, in tutta la sua meschina volgarità, aveva gettato una luce di verità sul suo attimo di follia. Le pareva che le parole del suo tutore avessero messo a nudo di fronte alla folla ghignante i segreti tormenti della sua coscienza.”

Edith Wharton

cap. XI, p. 94
Estate

“Mentre ogni altro pensiero si faceva sempre più confuso e irreale fino a ridursi a quell'incerto baluginio che assume il mondo per chi ci vede poco, la presenza del signor Royall prese a stagliarsi su quello sfondo indistinto con la salda robustezza di una roccia. Aveva sempre pensato a lui, come a un essere odioso che le intralciava il cammino, ma che poteva sconfiggere e domare, a suo piacimento. Solo una volta, il giorno della cerimonia, mentre i frammenti sparsi del suo discorso fluttuavano nella sua mente sconvolta, aveva intuito la presenza di un altro essere, un essere assai diverso dal nemico ottuso con cui divideva la sua vita, che, oltre la nebbia infuocata dei suoi sogni, si stagliava innanzi a lei con sorprendente precisione. Allora per un attimo le sue parole e il tono con cui le aveva pronunciate le avevano fatto intuire perché l'avesse sempre giudicato un uomo solitario. Ma ben presto la nebbia del sogno l'aveva nascosto di nuovo, facendole dimenticare quella fuggevole impressione.”

Edith Wharton

cap. XVIII, p. 158
Estate

“Ci sono due modi di diffondere luce: essere la candela oppure essere lo specchio che la riflette.”

Edith Wharton

da Vesalius in Zante, in Clifford Pickover, Surfing through Hyperspace, p. 118

“La felicità è un'opera d'arte. Trattatela con cura.”

Edith Wharton

da Il canto delle muse, traduzione di Marta Morazzoni, Corbaccio

“Il mattino seguente il sole sorse su un mondo nuovo. Oddo doveva partire allo spuntar del giorno e l'alba lo sorprese alla finestra, mentre col pensiero la vedeva dispiegarsi e tuttavia non ancora del tutto visibile nell'estremo barlume delle stelle.”

Edith Wharton

da La valle della decisione

“Il caldo si era fatto soffocante… Charity lo sentiva calare su di sé in ondate avvampanti, finché il mare dei volti in sala cominciò a danzare davanti ai suoi occhi come le immagini proiettate sullo schermo, in quel cinema di Nettleton. Per un attimo il viso del signor Royall spiccò nella confusione generale. L'uomo aveva ripreso il suo posto davanti all'armonium e la fissava con una tale intensità da darle l'impressione che quello sguardo fosse riuscito a penetrare fino al centro delle sue sensazioni confuse…”

Edith Wharton

cap. XIII, p. 115
Estate

“Be', stammi bene a sentire. Quel che mi preme è sei vuoi sposarmi. Il resto non mi interessa. Arrivato alla mia età, un uomo sa distinguere quello che conta da quello che non conta; è l'unico vantaggio di invecchiare.”

Edith Wharton

cap. XVII, p. 155
proposta di matrimonio
Estate

Edith Wharton: Frasi in inglese

“And you'll sit beside me, and we'll look, not at visions, but at realities.”

Help us translate this quote

Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Origine: The Age of Innocence

“A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.”

Help us translate this quote

Edith Wharton

Ezra Pound, ABC of Reading (1934): "Warning"
Misattributed

“But after a moment a sense of waste and ruin overcame him. There they were, close together and safe and shut in; yet so chained to their separate destinies that they might as well been half the world apart.”

Help us translate this quote

Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Origine: The Age of Innocence

“He simply felt that if he could carry away the vision of the spot of earth she walked on, and the way the sky and sea enclosed it, the rest of the world might seem less empty.”

Help us translate this quote

Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Origine: The Age of Innocence

“Everything may be labelled- but everybody is not.”

Help us translate this quote

Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Origine: The Age of Innocence

“As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch. What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath.”

Help us translate this quote

Edith Wharton libro The House of Mirth

Origine: The House of Mirth

“They are all alike you know. They hold their tongues for years and you think you're safe, but when the opportunity comes they remember everything.”

Help us translate this quote

Edith Wharton

“… though she had not had the strength to shake off the spell that bound her to him she had lost all spontaneity of feeling, and seemed to herself to be passively awaiting a fate she could not avert.”

Help us translate this quote

Edith Wharton Summer

Origine: Summer

“Don't you ever mind," she asked suddenly, "not being rich enough to buy all the books you want?”

Help us translate this quote

Edith Wharton libro The House of Mirth

Origine: The House of Mirth

“… I have always lived on contrasts! To me the only death is monotony. Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.”

Help us translate this quote

Edith Wharton

“I was just a screw or cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else.”

Help us translate this quote

Edith Wharton libro The House of Mirth

Origine: The House of Mirth

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

Help us translate this quote

Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Origine: The Age of Innocence (1920), Ch. 8

“I want to put my hand out and touch you. I want to do for you and care for you. I want to be there when you're sick and when you're lonesome.”

Help us translate this quote

Edith Wharton libro Ethan Frome

Origine: Ethan Frome

“Women ought to be free - as free as we are,' he declared, making a discovery of which he was too irritated to measure the terrific consequences.”

Help us translate this quote

Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Origine: The Age of Innocence

“It is so easy for a woman to become what the man she loves believes her to be”

Help us translate this quote

Edith Wharton libro The House of Mirth

Origine: The House of Mirth

“He knelt by the bed and bent over her, draining their last moment to its lees; and in the silence there passed between them the word which made all clear.”

Help us translate this quote

Edith Wharton libro The House of Mirth

Origine: The House of Mirth

“With a shiver of foreboding he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material and social interests held together by ignorance on the one side and hypocrisy on the other.”

Help us translate this quote

Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Origine: The Age of Innocence

“I shan't be lonely now. I was lonely; I was afraid. But the emptiness and the darkness are gone; when I turn back into myself now I'm like a child going at night into a room where there's always a light.”

Help us translate this quote

Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Origine: The Age of Innocence

“Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?”

Help us translate this quote

Edith Wharton libro The House of Mirth

Origine: The House of Mirth

“Who's 'they'? Why don't you all get together and be 'they' yourselves?”

Help us translate this quote

Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Origine: The Age of Innocence

“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.”

Help us translate this quote

Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Origine: The Age of Innocence

“The taste of the usual was like cinders in his mouth, and there were moments when he felt as if he were being buried alive under his future.”

Help us translate this quote

Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Origine: The Age of Innocence

“Everything about her was warm and soft and scented; even the stains of her grief became her as raindrops do the beaten rose.”

Help us translate this quote

Edith Wharton libro The House of Mirth

Origine: The House of Mirth

“He had known the love that is fed on caresses and feeds them; but this passion that was closer than his bones was not to be superficially satisfied.”

Help us translate this quote

Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Origine: The Age of Innocence

“They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods.”

Help us translate this quote

Edith Wharton libro Ethan Frome

Origine: Ethan Frome

“The real alchemy consists in being able to turn gold back again into something else; and that's the secret that most of your friends have lost.”

Help us translate this quote

Edith Wharton libro The House of Mirth

Origine: The House of Mirth

Autori simili

Toni Morrison photo
Toni Morrison27
scrittrice statunitense None
Helen Keller photo
Helen Keller59
scrittrice, attivista e insegnante statunitense None
Daphne du Maurier photo
Daphne du Maurier4
scrittrice britannica None
Etty Hillesum photo
Etty Hillesum84
scrittrice olandese None
Grazia Deledda photo
Grazia Deledda18
scrittrice italiana None
Svjatlana Aleksievič photo
Svjatlana Aleksievič5
scrittrice bielorussa None
Marina Ivanovna Cvetaeva photo
Marina Ivanovna Cvetaeva5
poetessa e scrittrice russa None
Oriana Fallaci photo
Oriana Fallaci152
scrittrice italiana None
Anaïs Nin photo
Anaïs Nin42
scrittrice statunitense None
Nelly Sachs photo
Nelly Sachs36
poetessa e scrittrice tedesca None