Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old Edith Wharton quotes, Edith Wharton sayings, and Edith Wharton proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!Edith Wharton
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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.Edith Wharton
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There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. Edith Wharton
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There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one’s self, the very meaning of one’s soul.Edith Wharton
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If we'd only stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.Edith Wharton
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Here in the jealous hollow of the mould, / Faint, light-eluding, as templed in the breast / Of some rose-vaulted lotus, see the best / The artist had - the vision that unrolled / Its flying sequence till completion's hold / Caught the wild round and bade the dancers rest - / The mortal lip on the immortal pressed / One instant, ere the blindness and the cold. / And there the vase: immobile, exiled, tame, / The captives of fulfillment link their round, / Foot-heavy on the inelastic ground, / How different, yet how enviously the same! / Dishonoring the kinship that they claim, / As here the written word the inner sound.Edith Wharton
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My little dog—a heartbeat at my feet. Edith Wharton
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There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.Edith Wharton
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There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.Edith Wharton
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The inner vanity is generally in proportion to the outer self-deprecation.Edith Wharton
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Make one's center of life inside one's self, not selfishly or excludingly, but with a kind of unassailable serenity.Edith Wharton
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There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.Edith Wharton
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There are two ways of spreading light, to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.Edith Wharton
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There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul. Edith Wharton
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People pay for what they do, and still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it simply, by the lives they lead.Edith Wharton
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There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul. Edith Wharton
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One of the great things about travel is you find out how many goods, kind people there are.Edith Wharton
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The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm in form as well as in sound, is one of the most inveterate of human instincts.Edith Wharton
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If the proportion is the good breeding of architecture, symmetry, or the answering of one part to another, may be defined as the sanity of decoration.Edith Wharton