The-house-of-mirth Quotes

Yes - it was happiness she still wanted, and the glimpse she had caught of it made everything else o...

We are expected to be pretty and well-dressed until we drop.

Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape...

In the rosy glow it diffused her companions seemed full of amiable qualities. She liked their elegan...

Overhead hung a summer sky furrowed with the rush of rockets; and from the east a late moon, pushing...

Oh, Gerty, I wasn't meant to be good.

The noble buoyancy of her attitude, its suggestion of soaring grace, revealed the touch of poetry in...