Edith Wharton Quotes
Novelist (1862 - 1937)

But marriage is one long sacrifice.... Chapter 21, medora manson speaking to newland archer

- Edith Wharton

But marriage is one long sacrifice.... Chapter 21, medora manson speaking to newland archer

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To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?

- Edith Wharton

To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?

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He had married (as most young men did) because he had met a perfectly charming girl at the moment when a series of rather aimless sentimental adventures were ending in premature disgust; and she had represented peace, stability, comradeship, and the steadying sense of an unescapable duty.

- Edith Wharton

He had married (as most young men did) because he had met a perfectly charming girl at the moment when a series of rather aimless sentimental adventures were ending in premature disgust; and she had represented peace, stability, comradeship, and the steadying sense of an unescapable duty.

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She gave so many reasons that i've forgotten them all.

- Edith Wharton

She gave so many reasons that i've forgotten them all.

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My last page is always latent in my first; but the intervening windings of the way become clear only as i write.

- Edith Wharton

My last page is always latent in my first; but the intervening windings of the way become clear only as i write.

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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 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.

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... Even in houses commonly held to be 'booky' one finds, nine times out of ten, not a library but a book-dump.

- Edith Wharton

... Even in houses commonly held to be 'booky' one finds, nine times out of ten, not a library but a book-dump.

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Every house is a mad-house at some time or another.

- Edith Wharton

Every house is a mad-house at some time or another.

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...It was one of the great livery-stableman's most masterly intuitions to have discovered that americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than they want to get to it.

- Edith Wharton

...It was one of the great livery-stableman's most masterly intuitions to have discovered that americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than they want to get to it.

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

- Edith Wharton

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

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What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out.

- Edith Wharton

What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out.

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Yes, one gets over things. But there are certain memories one can't bit on.

- Edith Wharton

Yes, one gets over things. But there are certain memories one can't bit on.

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It is so easy for a woman to become what the man she loves believes her to be

- Edith Wharton

It is so easy for a woman to become what the man she loves believes her to be

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...Every literature, in its main lines, reflects the chief characteristics of the people for whom, and about whom, it is written.

- Edith Wharton

...Every literature, in its main lines, reflects the chief characteristics of the people for whom, and about whom, it is written.

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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

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.

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

- Edith Wharton

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

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In our hurried world too little value is attached to the part of the connoisseur and dilettante.

- Edith Wharton

In our hurried world too little value is attached to the part of the connoisseur and dilettante.

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And all the while, i suppose," he thought, "real people were living somewhere, and real things happening to them.

- Edith Wharton

And all the while, i suppose," he thought, "real people were living somewhere, and real things happening to them.

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

- Edith Wharton

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

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I want to put my hand out and touch you. I want to do for you and care for you. I want to be there when you're sick and when you're lonesome.

- Edith Wharton

I want to put my hand out and touch you. I want to do for you and care for you. I want to be there when you're sick and when you're lonesome.

Hands Sick Care Month Calendar with this Quote Printable Folded Card Cursive Handwriting Worksheets Quote of the day Bulletin Board Posters

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