Edith Wharton - Making Quotes

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What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out.

Edith Wharton

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.

Edith Wharton

The civilized instinct finds a subtler pleasure in making use of its antagonist than in confounding him.

Edith Wharton

She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making.

Edith Wharton

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

Edith Wharton

The making of the substance called character was a process about as slow and arduous as the building of the Pyramids; and the thing itself, like those awful edifices, was mainly useful to lodge one's descendants in, after they too were dust.

Edith Wharton