Edith Wharton Littles Quotations

Then stay with me a little longer,' Madame Olenska said in a low tone, just touching his knee with her plumed fan. It was the lightest touch, but it thrilled him like a caress.

Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of her life.

She would not have put herself out so much to say so little.

One cares so little for the style in which one's praises are written.

She threw back her head with a laugh that made her chins ripple like little waves.

In our hurried world too little value is attached to the part of the connoisseur and dilettante.