Edith Wharton
Quotes by 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.
— Edith Wharton
Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
— Edith Wharton
Life is the only real counselor wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
— Edith Wharton
If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
— 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.
— Edith Wharton
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
— Edith Wharton
The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
— Edith Wharton