"The Buccaneers" Quotes
"The Buccaneers" by Edith Wharton follows a group of spirited American girls navigating high society and romance in 1870s London.
classics | 406 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
She had been taught that if you didn't get what you wanted, you must just go on wanting it; but she found that a rather lonely business.
One mustn't expect people to be perfect. We must all make allowances for each other's weak points.
How dreary to be always thinking of one's own advantage! One's own advantage doesn't seem to me a very interesting subject for thought.
I don't know that I ever wanted anybody else's life; but I wanted my own so tremendously.
The only thing that makes one think of death is the fear of missing something.
Life's always a bit of a mess, and death's the only orderly thing I know.
It takes a great deal of courage to be truthful without being brutal.
We've all got to be brave sometimes; it's the only thing to be when one can't be happy.
There's no such thing as a perfect person; that's only a poetical idea of Heaven.
After all, it's not what we've got, but what we make of what we've got, that counts.
