Famous Quotes

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

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

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

My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet.

Edith Wharton

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

Edith Wharton

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

Edith Wharton

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

Edith Wharton

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

Edith Wharton

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

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