Quotes about Wharton

the same quality of making other standards non-existent by ignoring them. This attribute was common to most of Lily's set: they had a force of negation which eliminated everything beyond their own range of perception.

You see, Monsieur, it's worth everything, isn't it, to keep one's intellectual liberty, not to enslave one's powers of appreciation, one's critical independence?

But the idealist subdued to vulgar necessities must employ vulgar minds to draw the inferences to which he cannot stoop

What right had she to dream the dreams of loveliness?

is probable that, like the illustrious author of the drama, all were unconscious of any incongruity between their sentiments and actions.