--- title: "16 Way Quotes By Edith Wharton" description: "16 Way quotes by Edith Wharton. Plus more from Edith Wharton and more Way sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d9d/edith-wharton-512_happens_there-are-lots-of-ways-of-answering-a-le_995063.png" --- > [there are lots of ways of answering a letter - and writing doesn't happen to be mine.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-wharton/there-are-lots-of-ways-of-answering-a-letter-and-writing-doesn-t/) [Edith Wharton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-wharton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d9d/edith-wharton-512_happens_there-are-lots-of-ways-of-answering-a-le_995063.png) > [There are two ways to spread happiness; either be the light who shines it or be the mirror who reflects it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-wharton/there-are-two-ways-to-spread-happiness-either-be-the-light-who-shines/) [Edith Wharton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-wharton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/221/edith-wharton-512_happiness_there-are-two-ways-to-spread-happiness-e_2815966.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) > [Life has a way of overgrowing its achievements as well as its ruins.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-wharton/life-has-a-way-of-overgrowing-its-achievements-as-well-as-its-ruins/) [Edith Wharton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-wharton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c9c/edith-wharton-512_achievement_life-has-a-way-of-overgrowing-its-achiev_1479344.png) > [My last page is always latent in my first; but the intervening windings of the way become clear only as I write.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-wharton/my-last-page-is-always-latent-in-my-first-but-the-intervening/) [Edith Wharton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-wharton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/875/edith-wharton-512_clear_my-last-page-is-always-latent-in-my-firs_1248232.png) > [The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-wharton/the-only-way-not-to-think-about-money-is-to-have-a-great-deal-of-it/) [Edith Wharton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-wharton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bbf/edith-wharton-512_money_the-only-way-not-to-think-about-money-is_2717418.png) > [There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-wharton/there-are-lots-of-ways-of-being-miserable-but-there-s-only-one-way-of/) [Edith Wharton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-wharton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3af/edith-wharton-512_good-times_there-are-lots-of-ways-of-being-miserabl_1181394.png) > [Mothers and daughters are part of each other's consciousness, in different degrees and in a different way, but still with the mutual…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-wharton/mothers-and-daughters-are-part-of-each-other-s-consciousness-in/) [Edith Wharton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-wharton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/894/edith-wharton-512_children_mothers-and-daughters-are-part-of-each-o_2036041.jpg) > [He simply felt that if he could carry away the vision of the spot of earth she walked on, and the way…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-wharton/he-simply-felt-that-if-he-could-carry-away-the-vision-of-the-spot-of/) [Edith Wharton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-wharton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/377/edith-wharton-512_dreams_he-simply-felt-that-if-he-could-carry-aw_2781386.png) > [She was very near hating him now; yet the sound of his voice, the way the light fell on his thin, dark…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-wharton/she-was-very-near-hating-him-now-yet-the-sound-of-his-voice-the-way/) [Edith Wharton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-wharton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c8c/edith-wharton-512_clothes_she-was-very-near-hating-him-now-yet-the_169006.png) > [One can remain alive ... if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity interested in big things and happy in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-wharton/one-can-remain-alive-if-one-is-unafraid-of-change-insatiable-in/) [Edith Wharton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-wharton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/295/edith-wharton-512_afraid-of-change_one-can-remain-alive-if-one-is-unafraid_2561230.png) > [It was the old New York way...the way people who dreaded scandal more than disease, who placed decency above courage, and who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-wharton/it-was-the-old-new-york-way-the-way-people-who-dreaded-scandal-more/) [Edith Wharton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-wharton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6b2/edith-wharton-512_courage_it-was-the-old-new-york-way-the-way-peop_1468664.png) > [Wherein lies a poet's claim to originality? That he invents his incidents? No. That he was present when his episodes had their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-wharton/wherein-lies-a-poet-s-claim-to-originality-that-he-invents-his-2/) [Edith Wharton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-wharton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d3/edith-wharton-512_birth_wherein-lies-a-poet-s-claim-to-originali_1511990.png) > [The other producer of old age is habit: the deathly process of doing the same thing in the same way at the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-wharton/the-other-producer-of-old-age-is-habit-the-deathly-process-of-doing/) [Edith Wharton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-wharton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3cf/edith-wharton-512_age_the-other-producer-of-old-age-is-habit-t_1315394.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) > [But I have sometimes thought that a woman's nature is like a great house full of rooms: there is the hall, through…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-wharton/but-i-have-sometimes-thought-that-a-woman-s-nature-is-like-a-great/) [Edith Wharton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-wharton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/721/edith-wharton-512_comes-and-goes_but-i-have-sometimes-thought-that-a-woma_186886.jpg) ## Other authors on Way ## 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/way/edith-wharton/#itemlist", "name": "16 Way Quotes By Edith Wharton", "numberOfItems": 16, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "there are lots of ways of answering a letter - and writing doesn't happen to be mine.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Edith Wharton" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-wharton/there-are-lots-of-ways-of-answering-a-letter-and-writing-doesn-t/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d9d/edith-wharton-512_happens_there-are-lots-of-ways-of-answering-a-le_995063.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d9d/edith-wharton-512_happens_there-are-lots-of-ways-of-answering-a-le_995063.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d9d/edith-wharton-512_happens_there-are-lots-of-ways-of-answering-a-le_995063.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“there are lots of ways of answering a letter - and writing doesn't happen to be mine.” — Edith Wharton", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "There are two ways to spread happiness; either be the light who shines it or be the mirror who reflects it.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Edith Wharton" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-wharton/there-are-two-ways-to-spread-happiness-either-be-the-light-who-shines/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/221/edith-wharton-512_happiness_there-are-two-ways-to-spread-happiness-e_2815966.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/221/edith-wharton-512_happiness_there-are-two-ways-to-spread-happiness-e_2815966.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/221/edith-wharton-512_happiness_there-are-two-ways-to-spread-happiness-e_2815966.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“There are two ways to spread happiness; either be the light who shines it or be the mirror who reflects it.” — Edith Wharton", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "To have you here, you mean-in reach and yet out of reach? 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