Quotes by Edith Wharton

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

#Bed, #Life

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

#Edith Wharton

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

#Edith Wharton

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

#Edith Wharton

I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite...

#Edith Wharton

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

#Edith Wharton

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

#Edith Wharton

Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into...

#Edith Wharton

Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.

#Edith Wharton

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

#Discipline

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

#Elderly

Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into...

#Habit