Author: Edith Wharton

Cites

• Giacomo Leopardi (1)
  • IN: The Valley of Decision (1902) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Prima che incontroalla festosa fronte I lugubri suoi lampi il ver baleni.
    FROM: Canti, (1835), Poem, Italy
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1)
  • IN: The Valley of Decision (1902) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Zu neuen Ufern lockt ein neuer Tag.
    FROM: Faust: A Tragedy, (1808), Play, Germany
• NULL (1)
  • IN: The Valley of Decision (1902) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The Vision touched him on the lips and said: Hereafter thou shalt eat me in thy bread, Drink me in all thy kisses, feel my hand Steal 'twixt thy palm and Joy's, and see me stand Watchful at every crossing of the ways, The insatiate lover of thy nights and days.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Francis Bacon (1)
  • IN: The Valley of Decision (1902) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Where are the portraits of those who have perished in spite of their vows?
    FROM: Novum Organum, (1620), Book, UK
• Graham Greene (1)
  • IN: The Ghost-Feeler (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: What gives a ghost story its thrill? First I think its physical sense and, secondly, a moral twist.
    FROM: The Spectator, (1937), NULL, UK

Cited by

• Francesca Segal (1)
  • IN: The Innocents (2012) Fiction, Domestic Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: In the rotation of crops there was a recognized season for wild oats; but they were not to be sown more than once.
    FROM: The Age of Innocence, (1920), Novel, US
• Elizabeth Ross (1)
  • IN: Belle Epoque (2013) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects.
    FROM: Versalius in Zante, (1564), Poem, US
• Anne-Marie Casey (1)
  • IN: The Real Liddy James (2016) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: And all the while, I suppose, he thought, real people were living somewhere, and real things happening to them...
    FROM: The Age of Innocence, (1920), Novel, US
• Joy Callaway (1)
  • IN: The Fifth Avenue Artists Society (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.
    FROM: The Age of Innocence, (1920), Novel, US
• Liza Palmer (1)
  • IN: Nowhere but Home (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Each time you happen to me all over again.
    FROM: The Age of Innocence, (1920), Novel, US
• O' Farrell, Maggie (1)
  • IN: The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox (2006) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I couldn't have my happiness made out of a wrong -- an unfairness -- to somebody else ... What sort of a life could we build on such foundations?
    FROM: The Age of Innocence, (1920), Book, US
• Caitlin Macy (1)
  • IN: Spoiled (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Mrs. Spragg had no ambition for herself... but she was passionately resolved that Undine should have what she wanted.
    FROM: The Custom of the Country, (1913), Novel, US
• Yannick Grannec (2)
  • IN: The Goddress of Small Victories (2014) Fiction, French
    EPIGRAPH: There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
    FROM: North American Review, (1902), Article, US
  • IN: The Goddess of Small Victories (2012) Fiction, French
    EPIGRAPH: There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
    FROM: Vesalius in Zante (1564), (1902), Poem, US
• Catherine Jones (1)
  • IN: Wonder Girls (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I suppose there is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, they very meaning of one's soul.
    FROM: A Backward Glance, (1934), Book, US
• R. J. Hernandez (1)
  • IN: An Innocent Fashion (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?
    FROM: The House of Mirth, (1905), Novel, US
• Laurie Horowitz (1)
  • IN: The Family Fortune (2006) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: …and their prejudices reminded him of sign-posts warning off trespassers who have long since ceased to intrude.
    FROM: The Custom of the Century, (1913), Novel, US
• Yvonne Georgina Puig (1)
  • IN: A Wife of Noble Character (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Why must a girl pay so dearly for her last escape from routine?
    FROM: The House of Mirth, (1905), Novel, US