12 Quotes By 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 on age

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

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 on death

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

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 on freedom

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

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 on imagination

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

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

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

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

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