Hehe

[happychemist]

"The virtues, she once explained to me, are like bonnets: the very ones that look best on other people may not happen to suit one's own particular style; and, she added, with a slight deflection of metaphor, that none of the ready-made virtues ever had fitted her: they all pinched somewhere, and she'd given up trying to wear them

Comments

[anonymous]

You should read some Oscar Wilde. If you like that quote, he'd be right down your alley. -- Steve

[margaret_d]

What are you reading? I have never found anything by Edith Wharton very satisfying except Age of Innocence (wonderful wonderful wonderful book). Have you found something else by her that´s actually good? Please share! Cute quote.

[happychemist]

I am currently reading an anthology of her short stories: The New York Stories of Edith Wharton

I am very much enjoying myself. I have no other frame of reference, as this is my second foray into Wharton after Age of Innocence, which you know I loved. But I love this collection.