--- title: "12 Long Quotes By Edith Wharton" description: "12 Long quotes by Edith Wharton. Plus more from Edith Wharton and more Long sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/356/edith-wharton-512_long_marriage-is-one-long-sacrifice-787699_787699.png" --- > [“Marriage is one long sacrifice.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-wharton/marriage-is-one-long-sacrifice/) [Edith Wharton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-wharton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/356/edith-wharton-512_long_marriage-is-one-long-sacrifice-787699_787699.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) > [But marriage is one long sacrifice… Chapter 21, Medora Manson speaking to Newland Archer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-wharton/but-marriage-is-one-long-sacrifice-chapter-21-medora-manson-speaking/) [Edith Wharton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-wharton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4e6/edith-wharton-512_archer_but-marriage-is-one-long-sacrifice-chapt_2773620.png) > [When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-wharton/when-people-ask-for-time-it-s-always-for-time-to-say-no-yes-has-one/) [Edith Wharton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-wharton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e4a/edith-wharton-512_half_when-people-ask-for-time-it-s-always-for_2087932.png) > [There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-wharton/there-are-moments-when-a-man-s-imagination-so-easily-subdued-to-what/) [Edith Wharton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-wharton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e3/edith-wharton-512_destiny_there-are-moments-when-a-man-s-imaginati_1989168.png) > [Yes, you have been away a very long time.' 'Oh, centuries and centuries; so long,' she said, 'that I'm sure I'm dead…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-wharton/yes-you-have-been-away-a-very-long-time-oh-centuries-and-centuries-so/) [Edith Wharton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-wharton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/091/edith-wharton-512_buried_yes-you-have-been-away-a-very-long-time_2193772.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) > [Their long years together had shown him that it did not so much matter if marriage was a dull duty, as long…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-wharton/their-long-years-together-had-shown-him-that-it-did-not-so-much/) [Edith Wharton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-wharton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7c1/edith-wharton-512_appetite_their-long-years-together-had-shown-him_2991553.png) > [True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision. That new, that personal, vision is attained only by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-wharton/true-originality-consists-not-in-a-new-manner-but-in-a-new-vision-2/) [Edith Wharton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-wharton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/619/edith-wharton-512_able_true-originality-consists-not-in-a-new-m_3061696.jpg) > [And he felt himself oppressed by this creation of factitious purity, so cunningly manufactured by a conspiracy of mothers and aunts and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-wharton/and-he-felt-himself-oppressed-by-this-creation-of-factitious-purity/) [Edith Wharton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-wharton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/374/edith-wharton-512_aunt_and-he-felt-himself-oppressed-by-this-cr_395149.png) > [As he paid the hansom and followed his wife's long train into the house he took refuge in the comforting platitude that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-wharton/as-he-paid-the-hansom-and-followed-his-wife-s-long-train-into-the/) [Edith Wharton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-wharton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c36/edith-wharton-512_adaptation_as-he-paid-the-hansom-and-followed-his-w_824555.png) > [Habit is necessary. It is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-wharton/habit-is-necessary-it-is-the-habit-of-having-habits-of-turning-a/) [Edith Wharton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-wharton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6de/edith-wharton-512_afraid-of-change_habit-is-necessary-it-is-the-habit-of-ha_175443.jpg) ## Other authors on Long ## 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/long/edith-wharton/#itemlist", "name": "12 Long Quotes By Edith Wharton", "numberOfItems": 12, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Marriage is one long sacrifice.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Edith Wharton" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-wharton/marriage-is-one-long-sacrifice/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/356/edith-wharton-512_long_marriage-is-one-long-sacrifice-787699_787699.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/356/edith-wharton-512_long_marriage-is-one-long-sacrifice-787699_787699.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/356/edith-wharton-512_long_marriage-is-one-long-sacrifice-787699_787699.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Marriage is one long sacrifice.” — Edith Wharton", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "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.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Edith Wharton" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-wharton/it-s-you-who-are-telling-me-opening-my-eyes-to-things-i-d-looked-at/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b6e/edith-wharton-512_eye_it-s-you-who-are-telling-me-opening-my-e_1200225.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b6e/edith-wharton-512_eye_it-s-you-who-are-telling-me-opening-my-e_1200225.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b6e/edith-wharton-512_eye_it-s-you-who-are-telling-me-opening-my-e_1200225.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“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.” — Edith Wharton", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "But marriage is one long sacrifice… Chapter 21, Medora Manson speaking to Newland Archer", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Edith Wharton" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-wharton/but-marriage-is-one-long-sacrifice-chapter-21-medora-manson-speaking/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4e6/edith-wharton-512_archer_but-marriage-is-one-long-sacrifice-chapt_2773620.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4e6/edith-wharton-512_archer_but-marriage-is-one-long-sacrifice-chapt_2773620.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4e6/edith-wharton-512_archer_but-marriage-is-one-long-sacrifice-chapt_2773620.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“But marriage is one long sacrifice… Chapter 21, Medora Manson speaking to Newland Archer” — Edith Wharton", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. 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