Edith Wharton
Found 13 thoughts of Edith Wharton
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.
Edith Wharton
The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
Edith Wharton
If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.
Edith Wharton
Life is either always a tight-rope or a featherbed. Give me a tight-rope.
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
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
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
The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.
Edith Wharton
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
Edith Wharton
After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
Edith Wharton
I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.
Edith Wharton
