Author: Edith Wharton

Quotes

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

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

- 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

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

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

- Edith Wharton

To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?

To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?

- Edith Wharton

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

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

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

- 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

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

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

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