26 Quotations by Edith Wharton
- 1. A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definition ...
- 2. A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.
- 3. After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics ove ...
- 4. Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing wh ...
- 5. Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be in ...
- 6. How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be "American" before (or in contradistinction ...
- 7. I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the ame ...
- 8. I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it intere ...
- 9. I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the auth ...
- 10. I suppose there is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dea ...
- 11. I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and c ...
- 12. If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.
- 13. If we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.
- 14. Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.
- 15. Life is either always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.
- 16. Life is the only real counselor. Wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a par ...
- 17. Mrs. Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet ...
- 18. My first few weeks in America are always miserable, because the tastes I am cursed with are all of a ...
- 19. The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
- 20. There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that i ...
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