Inspirational Quotes by Edith Wharton

Life is either always a tight-rope or a featherbed. Give me a tight-rope.

— Edith Wharton

The moment my eyes fell on him, I was content.

— Edith Wharton

We ought to be opening a bottle of wine!

— Edith Wharton

The only thing to do is to hug one's friends tight and do one's job.

— Edith Wharton

It was harder to drown at sunrise than in darkness.

— Edith Wharton

Some things are best mended by a break.

— Edith Wharton

In the rotation of crops there was a recognized season for wild oats; but they were not sown more than once.

— Edith Wharton

“The motions of her mind were as incalculable as the flit of a bird in the branches”

— Edith Wharton

Do you know-I hardly remembered you? Hardly remembered me? I mean: how shall I explain? I-it's always so. Each time you happen…

— Edith Wharton

You thought I was a lovelorn mistress and I was really just an expensive prostitute.

— Edith Wharton

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. --Edith Wharton

— Edith Wharton

“You see, Monsieur, it's worth everything, isn't it, to keep one's intellectual liberty, not to enslave one's powers of appreciation, one's critical…

— Edith Wharton