Author: Edith Wharton

Quotes

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

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

- Edith Wharton

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

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.

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

- Edith Wharton

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

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

- 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.

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

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.

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

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

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

- Edith Wharton

I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.

I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.

- Edith Wharton

My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet.

My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet.

- Edith Wharton

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