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Edith Wharton Quotes

Edith Wharton quotes

American Author, Writer January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937

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...he arrived late at the office, perceived that his doing so made no difference whatever to any one, and was filled with sudden exasperation at the elaborate futility of his life Edith Wharton
The turnings of life seldon show a sign-post; or rather, though the sign is always there, it is usually placed some distance back, like the notices that give warning of a bad hill or a level railway-crossing. Edith Wharton
I was just a screw or cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else. Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton quote: "I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I..."
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
Edith Wharton quote: "Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the..."
Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope. Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton quote: "Life is always either a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me..."
Life is always either a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope. Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton quote: "To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a..."
To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it? Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton quote: "Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any."
Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any. Edith Wharton
But she had the awful gift of omnipresence, of exercising her influence from a distance; so that while the old family friends and visitors at Longlands said, "It's wonderful, now tactful Blanche is - how she keeps out of the young people's way," every member of the household, from its master to the last boots and scullion and gardener's boy, knew that Her Grace's eyes was on them all. Edith Wharton
It was amusement enough to be with a group of fearless and talkative girls, who said new things in a new language, who were ignorant of tradition and unimpressed by distinctions of rank; but it was soon clear that their young hostesses must be treated with the same respect, if not with the same ceremony as English girls of good family. Edith Wharton
The allegation that English girls had no conversation must be true; but theirs was a SPEAKING silence. Their eyes and smiles were eloquent! She hoped it would teach their own girls that they need not chatter like magpies. Edith Wharton
But I have sometimes thought that a woman’s nature is like a great house full of rooms: there is the hall, through which everyone passes in going in and out; the drawing-room, where one receives formal visits; the sitting-room, where the members of the family come and go as they list; but beyond that, far beyond, are other rooms, the handles of whose doors perhaps are never turned; no one knows the way to them, no one knows whither they lead; and in the innermost room, the holy of holies, the... Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton quote: "If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good..."
If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time. Edith Wharton
In spite of illness, in spite of even the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual state of disintegration if one is unafraid of change. Insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things and happy in small ways. Edith Wharton
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 ... one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in the big things, and happy in small ways. Edith Wharton

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