"Life is either always a tight-rope or a……" — Edith Wharton
"Life is either always a tight-rope or a featherbed. Give me a tight-rope."
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196 Quotes by Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton has 196 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- The moment my eyes fell on him, I was content.
- Wherein lies a poet's claim to originality? That he invents his incidents? No. That he was present when his episodes…
- We ought to be opening a bottle of wine!
- How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be American before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated,…
- There are two ways to spread happiness; either be the light who shines it or be the mirror who reflects…
- It is the omnipresent rush of water which give the Este Gardens their peculiar character. From the Anio, drawn up…
- It was harder to drown at sunrise than in darkness.
- It is almost as stupid to let your clothes betray that you know you are ugly as to have them…
- As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing…
- Yes, one gets over things. But there are certain memories one can't bit on.
- The only thing to do is to hug one's friends tight and do one's job.
- Make ones center of life inside ones self, not selfishly or excludingly, but with a kind of unassailable serenity.
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