--- title: "14 Eye Quotes By Edith Wharton" description: "14 Eye quotes by Edith Wharton. Plus more from Edith Wharton and more Eye sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f86/edith-wharton-512_episode_any-rapidly-enacted-episode-should-be-se_3233141.png" --- > [Any rapidly enacted episode. . .should be seen through only one pair of eyes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-wharton/any-rapidly-enacted-episode-should-be-seen-through-only-one-pair-of/) [Edith Wharton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-wharton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f86/edith-wharton-512_episode_any-rapidly-enacted-episode-should-be-se_3233141.png) > [The moment my eyes fell on him, I was content.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-wharton/the-moment-my-eyes-fell-on-him-i-was-content/) [Edith Wharton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-wharton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/19e/edith-wharton-512_crush_the-moment-my-eyes-fell-on-him-i-was-con_1350186.png) > [It frightened him to think what must have gone to the making of her eyes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-wharton/it-frightened-him-to-think-what-must-have-gone-to-the-making-of-her/) [Edith Wharton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-wharton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d7f/edith-wharton-512_beautiful_it-frightened-him-to-think-what-must-hav_2576567.png) > [It's you who are telling me; opening my eyes to things I'd looked at so long that I'd ceased to see them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-wharton/it-s-you-who-are-telling-me-opening-my-eyes-to-things-i-d-looked-at/) [Edith Wharton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-wharton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b6e/edith-wharton-512_eye_it-s-you-who-are-telling-me-opening-my-e_1200225.png) > [Beauty (was)a gift which, in the eyes of New York, justified every success, and excused a certain number of failings.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-wharton/beauty-was-a-gift-which-in-the-eyes-of-new-york-justified-every/) [Edith Wharton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-wharton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b99/edith-wharton-512_beauty_beauty-was-a-gift-which-in-the-eyes-of-n_349493.png) > [Only the fact that we are unaware how well our nearest know us enables us to live with them. Love is the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-wharton/only-the-fact-that-we-are-unaware-how-well-our-nearest-know-us-2/) [Edith Wharton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-wharton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bfc/edith-wharton-512_esteem_only-the-fact-that-we-are-unaware-how-we_3063729.png) > [Yes, the Gorgon has dried your tears.' Well, she has opened my eyes too; it's a delusion to say she blinds people.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-wharton/yes-the-gorgon-has-dried-your-tears-well-she-has-opened-my-eyes-too/) [Edith Wharton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-wharton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ea7/edith-wharton-512_blessed_yes-the-gorgon-has-dried-your-tears-well_1633240.jpg) > [I am secretly afraid of animals… I think it is because of the usness in their eyes, with the underlying not-usness which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-wharton/i-am-secretly-afraid-of-animals-i-think-it-is-because-of-the-usness/) [Edith Wharton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-wharton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7b5/edith-wharton-512_afraid_i-am-secretly-afraid-of-animals-i-think_1005345.jpg) > [She said she knew we were safe with you, and always would be, because once, when she asked you to, you'd given…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-wharton/she-said-she-knew-we-were-safe-with-you-and-always-would-be-because/) [Edith Wharton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-wharton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/464/edith-wharton-512_archer_she-said-she-knew-we-were-safe-with-you_1113474.png) > [The essence of taste is suitability. Divest the word of its prim and priggish implications, and see how it expresses the mysterious…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-wharton/the-essence-of-taste-is-suitability-divest-the-word-of-its-prim-and/) [Edith Wharton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-wharton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c45/edith-wharton-512_demand_the-essence-of-taste-is-suitability-dive_535747.png) > [The visible world is a daily miracle for those who have eyes and ears; and I still warm hands thankfully at the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-wharton/the-visible-world-is-a-daily-miracle-for-those-who-have-eyes-and-ears/) [Edith Wharton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-wharton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/24c/edith-wharton-512_dry_the-visible-world-is-a-daily-miracle-for_411146.png) > [“Yes, the Gorgon has dried your tears,” he said. “Well, she opened my eyes too; it's a delusion to say that she…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-wharton/yes-the-gorgon-has-dried-your-tears-he-said-well-she-opened-my-eyes/) [Edith Wharton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-wharton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ec5/edith-wharton-512_blessed_yes-the-gorgon-has-dried-your-tears-he-s_2064740.png) > [Set wide the window. Let me drink the day. I loved light ever, light in eye and brain No tapers mirrored in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-wharton/set-wide-the-window-let-me-drink-the-day-i-loved-light-ever-light-in/) [Edith Wharton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-wharton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/46e/edith-wharton-512_aisle_set-wide-the-window-let-me-drink-the-day_2077530.png) > [I think sometimes that it is almost a pity to enjoy Italy as much as I do, because the acuteness of my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-wharton/i-think-sometimes-that-it-is-almost-a-pity-to-enjoy-italy-as-much-as/) [Edith Wharton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-wharton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e40/edith-wharton-512_art_i-think-sometimes-that-it-is-almost-a-pi_1930056.jpg) ## Other authors on Eye ## More by Edith Wharton > [“Suddenly the air was full of that deep clangor of bells which periodically covers Rome with a roof of silver.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-wharton/suddenly-the-air-was-full-of-that-deep-clangor-of-bells-which/) [Edith Wharton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-wharton/) > [“Untrained human nature was not frank and innocent; it was full of the twists and defences of an instinctive guile. And he felt himself…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-wharton/untrained-human-nature-was-not-frank-and-innocent-it-was-full-of-the/) [Edith Wharton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-wharton/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-wharton/high-pasture-come-up-come-up-in-the-dim-vale-below-the-autumn-mist/) [Edith Wharton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-wharton/) > [“Two ways to be a light for all, is to be a flaming candle or the mirror that reflects it”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-wharton/two-ways-to-be-a-light-for-all-is-to-be-a-flaming-candle-or-the/) [Edith Wharton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-wharton/) > [“... no treasure-house of Atreus was ever as rich as a well-stored memory.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-wharton/no-treasure-house-of-atreus-was-ever-as-rich-as-a-well-stored-memory/) [Edith Wharton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-wharton/) > [“...the endless labour of rolling human stupidity up the steep hill of understanding.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-wharton/the-endless-labour-of-rolling-human-stupidity-up-the-steep-hill-of/) [Edith Wharton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-wharton/) > [“he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material and social interests held together…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-wharton/he-saw-his-marriage-becoming-what-most-of-the-other-marriages-about/) [Edith Wharton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-wharton/) > [The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-wharton/the-real-loneliness-is-living-among-all-these-kind-people-who-only/) [Edith Wharton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-wharton/) > [With a shiver of foreboding he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-wharton/with-a-shiver-of-foreboding-he-saw-his-marriage-becoming-what-most-of/) [Edith Wharton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-wharton/) > [Life is the saddest thing there is, next to death.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-wharton/life-is-the-saddest-thing-there-is-next-to-death/) [Edith Wharton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-wharton/a-classic-is-classic-not-because-it-conforms-to-certain-structural/) [Edith Wharton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-wharton/) > [There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when we were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-wharton/there-is-too-much-sour-grapes-for-my-taste-in-the-present-american/) [Edith Wharton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-wharton/) > [“But in a few years more perhaps there may be; for, deep within us as the ghost instinct lurks, I seem to see it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-wharton/but-in-a-few-years-more-perhaps-there-may-be-for-deep-within-us-as/) [Edith Wharton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-wharton/) > [Dialogue in fiction should be reserved for the culminating moments and regarded as the spray into which the great wave of narrative breaks in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-wharton/dialogue-in-fiction-should-be-reserved-for-the-culminating-moments/) [Edith Wharton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-wharton/) > [“These Americans, under their forthcoming manner, their surface-gush, as some might call it, have an odd reticence about what goes on underneath.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-wharton/these-americans-under-their-forthcoming-manner-their-surface-gush-as/) [Edith Wharton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-wharton/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/eye/edith-wharton/#itemlist", "name": "14 Eye Quotes By Edith Wharton", "numberOfItems": 14, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Any rapidly enacted episode. . .should be seen through only one pair of eyes.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Edith Wharton" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-wharton/any-rapidly-enacted-episode-should-be-seen-through-only-one-pair-of/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f86/edith-wharton-512_episode_any-rapidly-enacted-episode-should-be-se_3233141.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f86/edith-wharton-512_episode_any-rapidly-enacted-episode-should-be-se_3233141.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f86/edith-wharton-512_episode_any-rapidly-enacted-episode-should-be-se_3233141.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Any rapidly enacted episode. . .should be seen through only one pair of eyes.” — Edith Wharton", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The moment my eyes fell on him, I was content.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Edith Wharton" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-wharton/the-moment-my-eyes-fell-on-him-i-was-content/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/19e/edith-wharton-512_crush_the-moment-my-eyes-fell-on-him-i-was-con_1350186.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/19e/edith-wharton-512_crush_the-moment-my-eyes-fell-on-him-i-was-con_1350186.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/19e/edith-wharton-512_crush_the-moment-my-eyes-fell-on-him-i-was-con_1350186.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The moment my eyes fell on him, I was content.” — Edith Wharton", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "It frightened him to think what must have gone to the making of her eyes.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Edith Wharton" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-wharton/it-frightened-him-to-think-what-must-have-gone-to-the-making-of-her/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d7f/edith-wharton-512_beautiful_it-frightened-him-to-think-what-must-hav_2576567.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d7f/edith-wharton-512_beautiful_it-frightened-him-to-think-what-must-hav_2576567.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d7f/edith-wharton-512_beautiful_it-frightened-him-to-think-what-must-hav_2576567.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“It frightened him to think what must have gone to the making of her eyes.” — Edith Wharton", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "It's you who are telling me; 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