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Edith Wharton Quotes
A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue. - Edith Wharton Quotes
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 Quotes
After all, one knows ones weak points so well, that its rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others. - Edith Wharton Quotes
Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before. - Edith Wharton Quotes
Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors? - Edith Wharton Quotes
Beware of monotony; its the mother of all the deadly sins. - Edith Wharton Quotes
Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive. - Edith Wharton Quotes
He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime. - Edith Wharton Quotes
How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be American before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, and having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries? - Edith Wharton Quotes
I dont know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting. - Edith Wharton Quotes
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 Quotes
I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the authors political views. - Edith Wharton Quotes
I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie. - Edith Wharton Quotes
If only wed stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time. - Edith Wharton Quotes
If only wed stop trying to be happy wed have a pretty good time. - Edith Wharton Quotes
If wed stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time. - Edith Wharton Quotes
In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears. - Edith Wharton Quotes
In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways. - Edith Wharton Quotes
Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope. - Edith Wharton Quotes
Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue. - Edith Wharton Quotes
Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one. - Edith Wharton Quotes
My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet. - Edith Wharton Quotes
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 Quotes
Silence may be as variously shaded as speech. - Edith Wharton Quotes
The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background. - Edith Wharton Quotes
The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing. - Edith Wharton Quotes
The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it. - Edith Wharton Quotes
The worst of doing ones duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else. - Edith Wharton Quotes
There are lots of ways of being miserable, but theres only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy theres no reason why you shouldnt have a fairly good time. - Edith Wharton Quotes
There are moments when a mans imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny. - Edith Wharton Quotes
Quotes Cloud
After Author Because Classic Conforms Critics Definitions
Diploma Divorce Eternal Have Invent Itself Knows
Never Ones Others Overlook Points Probably Quite
Rather Rules That Them Virtue Weak Well
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