Famous quotes containing the words wharton and/or model:
“When people ask for time, its always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesnt take half as long to say.”
—Edith Wharton (18621937)
“...that absolutely everything beloved and cherished of the bourgeoisie, the conservative, the cowardly, and the impotentthe State, family life, secular art and sciencewas consciously or unconsciously hostile to the religious idea, to the Church, whose innate tendency and permanent aim was the dissolution of all existing worldly orders, and the reconstitution of society after the model of the ideal, the communistic City of God.”
—Thomas Mann (18751955)