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

Quote by Edith Wharton

Topics: Edith Wharton Quotes

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

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

He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of...

He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of...

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

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

I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in...

I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in...

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

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

Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing...

Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing...

My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet.

My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet.

There are moments when a man's imagination so easily subdued to what it lives in,...

There are moments when a man's imagination so easily subdued to what it lives in,...

To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret...

To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret...

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

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

It would presently be his task to take the bandage from this young woman's eyes,...

It would presently be his task to take the bandage from this young woman's eyes,...

I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I...

I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I...

Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing...

Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing...

Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.

Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.

After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have...

After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have...

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

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

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

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

Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less...

Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less...

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of...

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of...

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

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