--- title: "12 Want Quotes By Edith Wharton" description: "12 Want quotes by Edith Wharton. Plus more from Edith Wharton and more Want sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/89d/edith-wharton-512_hundred_i-swear-i-only-want-to-hear-about-you-to_847630.png" --- > [I swear I only want to hear about you, to know what you've been doing. It's a hundred years since we've met-it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-wharton/i-swear-i-only-want-to-hear-about-you-to-know-what-you-ve-been-doing/) [Edith Wharton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-wharton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/89d/edith-wharton-512_hundred_i-swear-i-only-want-to-hear-about-you-to_847630.png) > [What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-wharton/what-s-the-use-of-making-mysteries-it-only-makes-people-want-to-nose/) [Edith Wharton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-wharton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/25f/edith-wharton-512_mysteries_what-s-the-use-of-making-mysteries-it-on_246385.png) > [“She had everything she wanted, but she still felt, at times, that there were other things she might want if she knew…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-wharton/she-had-everything-she-wanted-but-she-still-felt-at-times-that-there/) [Edith Wharton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-wharton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/878/edith-wharton-512_heart_she-had-everything-she-wanted-but-she-st_406535.png) > [To have you here, you mean-in reach and yet out of reach? To meet you in this way, on the sly? It's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-wharton/to-have-you-here-you-mean-in-reach-and-yet-out-of-reach-to-meet-you/) [Edith Wharton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-wharton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0a5/edith-wharton-512_mean_to-have-you-here-you-mean-in-reach-and-y_1925377.png) > [I want to put my hand out and touch you. I want to do for you and care for you. I want…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-wharton/i-want-to-put-my-hand-out-and-touch-you-i-want-to-do-for-you-and-care/) [Edith Wharton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-wharton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/95e/edith-wharton-512_care_i-want-to-put-my-hand-out-and-touch-you_2512462.png) > [I don't know that I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want some one who made it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-wharton/i-don-t-know-that-i-should-care-for-a-man-who-made-life-easy-i-should/) [Edith Wharton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-wharton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7f9/edith-wharton-512_care_i-don-t-know-that-i-should-care-for-a-ma_860662.png) > [Don't you ever mind," she asked suddenly, "not being rich enough to buy all the books you want?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-wharton/don-t-you-ever-mind-she-asked-suddenly-not-being-rich-enough-to-buy/) [Edith Wharton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-wharton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dc7/edith-wharton-512_book_don-t-you-ever-mind-she-asked-suddenly-n_3065227.png) > [“I want - I want somehow to get away with you into a world where words like that -categories like that- won't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-wharton/i-want-i-want-somehow-to-get-away-with-you-into-a-world-where-words/) [Edith Wharton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-wharton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/645/edith-wharton-512_life_i-want-i-want-somehow-to-get-away-with-y_223812.png) > [...It was one of the great livery-stableman's most masterly intuitions to have discovered that Americans want to get away from amusement even…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-wharton/it-was-one-of-the-great-livery-stableman-s-most-masterly-intuitions/) [Edith Wharton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-wharton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/19f/edith-wharton-512_amusement_it-was-one-of-the-great-livery-stableman_571151.png) > [The difference is that these young people take it for granted that they're going to get whatever they want, and that we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-wharton/the-difference-is-that-these-young-people-take-it-for-granted-that/) [Edith Wharton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-wharton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c4f/edith-wharton-512_beats_the-difference-is-that-these-young-peopl_948667.png) > [I believe I know the only cure, which is to make one’s center of life inside of one’s self, not selfishly or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-wharton/i-believe-i-know-the-only-cure-which-is-to-make-one-s-center-of-life/) [Edith Wharton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-wharton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4c0/edith-wharton-512_believe_i-believe-i-know-the-only-cure-which-is_1359816.png) > [I couldn't have spoken like this yesterday, because when we've been apart, and I'm looking forward to seeing you, every thought is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-wharton/i-couldn-t-have-spoken-like-this-yesterday-because-when-we-ve-been/) [Edith Wharton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-wharton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/496/edith-wharton-512_flames_i-couldn-t-have-spoken-like-this-yesterd_2405682.jpg) ## Other authors on Want ## 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/want/edith-wharton/#itemlist", "name": "12 Want Quotes By Edith Wharton", "numberOfItems": 12, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I swear I only want to hear about you, to know what you've been doing. 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