All Edith Wharton Quotes
- He had her in his arms, her face like a wet flower at his lips, and all their vain terrors shriveling up like ghosts at… All
- One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are. Find
- She threw back her head with a laugh that made her chins ripple like little waves. Chins
- They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods Butterfly
- He seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of it's frozen woe, with all that was warm and sentient in him fast… Access
- Don't you ever mind," she asked suddenly, "not being rich enough to buy all the books you want? All
- I can't love you unless I give you up. Give
- What is one's personality, detached from that of the friends with whom fate happens to have linked one? I cannot think of myself apart from… Account
- In our hurried world too little value is attached to the part of the connoisseur and dilettante. Attached
- There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness.… Comfortable
- There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow. Age
- Mrs. Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet it alone. Alone
- The early mist had vanished and the fields lay like a silver shield under the sun. It was one of the days when the glitter… Days
- It would presently be his task to take the bandage from this young woman's eyes, and bid her look forth on the world. But how… Bandage
- If we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time. Good
- There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. --Edith Wharton Candle