Edith Wharton Quotes

American - Author January 24, 1862 - August 11, 1937

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

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

Inspirational, Light, Mirror, Candle

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

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

Dog, Pet, Feet, Heartbeat, Little

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

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

Mother, Beware, Monotony, Sins, Deadly

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

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

Good, Time, Happy, Be Happy, Trying

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

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

Vision, Imagination, True, New, Consists

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

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

Ideas, Worth, Air, Breathing, Only

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

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

Life, Me, Bed, Always, Give, Feather

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

Life, Wisdom, Experience, Moral, Real

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

Freedom, Age, Death, Old Age, Calm, Free

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, Man, Care, Interesting, Easy, Know

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

Easy, Her, Substance, Break, Lily, Made

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

Habit, Trail, Alive, Against, Habits

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, People, Long, Say, More, Ask

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

Great, Money, Think, Way, Only, Deal

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

Mind, American, Landscape, Background

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

Daily, Man, Imagination, Destiny, Long

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

Good, Tears, Deep, Enough, Only, Come

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

Memories, Regrets, Deal, He, Once, Had

Silence may be as variously shaded as speech. Edith Wharton

Silence, Speech, May

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

Life, Face, Look, Living, Worth, Able

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

Others, Weak, Critics, Well, Rather

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

Art, Doing, Done, Common, Modern, Been

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

New York, Divorce, New, Virtue, Diploma

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, Enough, Political, Never, Being

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

People, Want, Nose, Only, Out, Mysteries

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

Doing, Duty, Worst, Anything, Else

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