Edith Wharton Men Quotations

There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.

I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.

His whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled before him; and passing down its endless emptiness he saw the dwindling figure of a man to whom nothing was ever to happen.

He had married (as most young men did) because he had met a perfectly charming girl at the moment when a series of rather aimless sentimental adventures were ending in premature disgust; and she had represented peace, stability, comradeship, and the steadying sense of an unescapable duty.

It is so easy for a woman to become what the man she loves believes her to be

Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions.

The value of books is proportionate to what may be called their plasticity -- their quality of being all things to all men, of being diversely moulded by the impact of fresh forms of thought.

When a man says he doesn't understand a woman it's because he won't take the trouble.