I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners, crass landscape!! What a horror it is for a whole nation to be developing without the sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.
Edith WhartonSince the Americans have ceased to have dyspepsia, they have lost the only thing that gave them any expression.
Edith WhartonNothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions.
Edith WhartonI had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.
Edith Wharton