One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.
– Edith Wharton
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- The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend! – Edith Wharton
- Ah, no, he did not want May to have that kind of innocence, the innocence that seals the mind against imagination and the heart against experience… – Edith Wharton
- He didn’t really like travel, of course. He liked the idea of travel, and the memory of travel, but not travel itself. – Julian Barnes
- What novels did you read when you were young, dear? I’m convinced it all turns on that. – Edith Wharton
- The visible world is a daily miracle, for those who have eyes and ears. – Edith Wharton
- ..but it seemed to him that the tie between husband and wife, if breakable in prosperity, should be indissoluble in misfortune. – Edith Wharton
- The motions of her mind were as incalculable as the flit of a bird in the branches – Edith Wharton
- 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. – Edith Wharton
- The return to reality was as painful as the return to consciousness after taking an anesthetic – Edith Wharton
- A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys. – Edith Wharton
- The taste of the usual was like cinders in his mouth, and there were moments when he felt as if he were being buried alive under his future. – Edith Wharton
- They had never been at peace together, they two; and now he felt himself drawn downward into the strange mysterious depths of her tranquillity. – Edith Wharton
- I hate in-the-end kindnesses: they’re about as nourishing as the third day of cold mutton. – Edith Wharton
- The fact that he and she understood each other without a word seemed to bring them nearer than any explanation would have done. – Edith Wharton
- Don’t you know how, in talking a foreign language, even fluently, one says half the time not what one wants to but what one can? – Edith Wharton
- Don’t they always go from bad to worse? There’s no turning back–yourold self rejects you, and shuts you out. ~Lilly Bart – Edith Wharton
- Ah, don’t let us undo what you’ve done!’ she cried. ‘I can’t go back now to that other way of thinking. I can’t love you unless I give you up. – Edith Wharton
- I want to put my hand out and touch you. I want to do for you and care for you. I want to be there when you’re sick and when you’re lonesome. – Edith Wharton
- What she craved and really felt herself entitled to was a situation in which the noblest attitude should also be the easiest. – Edith Wharton
- In this slipshod age, we need object lessons in language and thought. -“ Edith Wharton on an address by John Hay – John Taliaferro
- …how much did pride count in the ebullition of passions in his breast? – Edith Wharton
- It seems stupid to have discovered America only to make it into a copy of another country. – Edith Wharton
- Is there nowhere in an American house where one may be by one’s self? – Edith Wharton
- …life makes ugly faces at us sometimes, I know. – Edith Wharton
- Oh, Gerty, I wasn’t meant to be good. – Edith Wharton
- It frightened him to think what must have gone to the making of her eyes. – Edith Wharton
- I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move. – Robert Louis Stevenson
- For my part, i travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move – Robert Davis Stevenson
- Travel makes me feel like a bird,Travel gives me a sense of freedom,Travel makes me come alive! – Archana Chaurasia Kapoor
- So, go. Travel far. Travel courageously. Travel young. – Alanda Kariza
- It is a great privilege to travel alone on the right path knowing at heart that one day millions too will travel on that same road! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- That’s the trouble with loving a wild thing: You’re always left watching the door.But you also get kind of used to it. – Edith Pattou
- I’ve met the most interesting people while flying or on a boat. These methods of travel seem to attract the kind of people I want to be with. – Hedy Lamarr
- Our Navy is great. Our navy is great. Our people are great… Great. – Trump
- Very few great artists feel the giant agony of the world. – Edith Hamilton
- Being kind to someone, only to look kind to others, defeats the purpose of being kind. – Shannon L Alder
- People who didn’t need people needed people around to know that they were the kind of people who didn’t need people. – Terry Pratchett
- I travel to be replenished with beauty, for travel makes the beauty of this world seem like a Christmas that never ends. – Carew Papritz
- Sometimes you do not need a particular destination to go, you just need a travel; the place you want to go is the travel itself! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to. – Alain de Botton