Edith Wharton Short Quotes

25 Sourced Quotes

View all Edith Wharton Quotes
Naturalness is not always consonant with taste.

Edith Wharton
It was harder to drown at sunrise than in darkness.

Edith Wharton
A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.

Edith Wharton
There's no such thing as old age; there is only sorrow.

Edith Wharton
Life's just a perpetual piecing together of broken bits.

Edith Wharton
To be with her was like living in a room with shuttered windows.

Edith Wharton
Inkstands and tea-cups are never as full as when one upsets them.

Edith Wharton
She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making.

Edith Wharton
Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any.

Edith Wharton
There's nothing grimmer than the tragedy that wears a comic mask.

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

Edith Wharton
He was a man who grew fat on resentment as others did on happiness.

Edith Wharton
Life has a way of overgrowing its achievements as well as its ruins.

Edith Wharton
There are spines to which the immobility of worship is not a strain.

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

Edith Wharton
Mrs. Tillotson senior dreaded ideas as much as a draught on her back.

Edith Wharton
Is there nowhere in an American house where one may be by one's self?

Edith Wharton
One cares so little for the style in which one's praises are written.

Edith Wharton
Free love, she found, was not the simple experiment she had imagined.

Edith Wharton
Oh, the critic who asks for a reprieve has already formed his opinion.

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

Edith Wharton
Like many unpunctual persons, Mrs. Gormer disliked to be kept waiting.

Edith Wharton
We shall hurt others less. Isn't it, after all, what you always wanted?

Edith Wharton
She was not accustomed to taste the joys of solitude except in company.

Edith Wharton
Genius is of small use to a woman who does not know how to do her hair.

Edith Wharton
I believe she keeps on being queenly in her own room, with the door shut.

Edith Wharton
It frightened him to think what must have gone to the making of her eyes.

Edith Wharton
Cleanliness and comfort are two of the costliest items in a modest budget.

Edith Wharton
Traditions that have lost their meaning are the hardest of all to destroy.

Edith Wharton
Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?

Edith Wharton