Think what stupid things the people must have done with their money who say they're 'happier without'. — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
I wonder why rich people always grow fat I suppose it's because there's nothing to worry them. — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it. — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Don't you ever mind," she asked suddenly, "not being rich enough to buy all the books you want? — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“After all, marriage is marriage, and money's money—both useful things in their way ...” — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“There was money enough... but she asked so much of life, in ways so complex and immaterial. He thought of her as… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“The only way to not think about money is to have a great deal of it." You might as well say that… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“But his marital education had since made strides, and he now knew that a disregard for money may imply not the willingness… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“A man has the advantage of being delivered early from the home point of view, and before Selden left for college he… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“During the interval between her divorce and her remarriage she had learned what things cost, but not how to do without them;… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Leisure, itself the creation of wealth, is incessantly engaged in transmuting wealth into beauty by secreting the surplus energy which flowers in… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“...the people who find fault with society are too apt to regard it as an end and not a means, just as… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“Suddenly the air was full of that deep clangor of bells which periodically covers Rome with a roof of silver.” — Edith Wharton Copy Share
“Untrained human nature was not frank and innocent; it was full of the twists and defences of an instinctive guile. And he felt himself… — Edith Wharton Copy Share
“High Pasture Come up--come up: in the dim vale below The autumn mist muffles the fading trees, But on this keen hill-pasture, though the… — Edith Wharton Copy Share
“Two ways to be a light for all, is to be a flaming candle or the mirror that reflects it” — Edith Wharton Copy Share
“... no treasure-house of Atreus was ever as rich as a well-stored memory.” — Edith Wharton Copy Share
“...the endless labour of rolling human stupidity up the steep hill of understanding.” — Edith Wharton Copy Share
“he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material and social interests held together… — Edith Wharton Copy Share
The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend! — Edith Wharton Copy Share
With a shiver of foreboding he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material… — Edith Wharton Copy Share
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never… — Edith Wharton Copy Share
There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when we were… — Edith Wharton Copy Share
“But in a few years more perhaps there may be; for, deep within us as the ghost instinct lurks, I seem to see it… — Edith Wharton Copy Share
Dialogue in fiction should be reserved for the culminating moments and regarded as the spray into which the great wave of narrative breaks in… — Edith Wharton Copy Share
“These Americans, under their forthcoming manner, their surface-gush, as some might call it, have an odd reticence about what goes on underneath.” — Edith Wharton Copy Share
