Quotes by Edith Wharton

When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one...

#Edith Wharton

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

#Edith Wharton

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

#Edith Wharton

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

#Edith Wharton

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

#Edith Wharton

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

#Edith Wharton

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

#Edith Wharton

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

#Edith Wharton

The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.

#Edith Wharton

Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.

#Edith Wharton

My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet.

#Edith Wharton

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

#Edith Wharton