Edith Wharton Quotes

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Edith Wharton

Inspirational, Two, Light

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If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
Edith Wharton

Time, Good, Happy

Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
Edith Wharton

Mother, Deadly, Sins

Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.
Edith Wharton

Life, Give, Bed

My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet.
Edith Wharton

Dog, Feet, Heartbeat

The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
Edith Wharton

Worth, Ideas, Air

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

Life, Care, Someone

Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
Edith Wharton

Life, Experience, Wisdom

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
Edith Wharton

True, Vision, Manner

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

After, Others, Rather

In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.
Edith Wharton

Good, Deep, Enough

Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.
Edith Wharton

Silence, May, Speech

A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.
Edith Wharton

Divorce, Virtue, York

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
Edith Wharton

Art, Done, Before

He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.
Edith Wharton

Once, Regrets, Memories

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

Time, Different, Story

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

Good, Political, Enough

Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.
Edith Wharton

Her, Easy, Less

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

Age, Freedom, Death

The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.
Edith Wharton

Mind, American, Landscape

The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
Edith Wharton

Money, Great, Deal

The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.
Edith Wharton

Else, Worst, Duty

To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?
Edith Wharton

Life, Living, Able

What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out.
Edith Wharton

Makes, Making, Nose

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

Time, Long, Ask

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: January 24, 1862

Died: August 11, 1937

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