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Edith Wharton Quotes

Type: Author Quotes Category: American Author Quotes Date of Birth: January 24, 1862 Date of Death: August 11, 1937 Nationality: American Find on Amazon: Edith Wharton Related Authors: Henry David Thoreau Mark Twain Gertrude Stein Henry Miller Helen Keller Edwin Louis Cole F. Scott Fitzgerald Susan Sontag

A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue. Edith Wharton After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others. Edith Wharton Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before. Edith Wharton Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins. Edith Wharton Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive. Edith Wharton He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime. Edith Wharton I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting. Edith Wharton I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story. Edith Wharton I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views. Edith Wharton If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time. Edith Wharton If we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time. Edith Wharton In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears. Edith Wharton Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope. Edith Wharton Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue. Edith Wharton Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one. Edith Wharton My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet. Edith Wharton Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death. Edith Wharton Silence may be as variously shaded as speech. Edith Wharton The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing. Edith Wharton The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background. Edith Wharton The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it. Edith Wharton The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else. Edith Wharton 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. Edith Wharton There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. Edith Wharton To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it? Edith Wharton True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision. Edith Wharton What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out. Edith Wharton When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say. Edith Wharton

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