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Beauty (was)a gift which, in the eyes of New York, justified every success, and excused a certain number of failings.
— Edith Wharton
Affluence, unless stimulated by a keen imagination, forms but the vaguest notion of the practical strain of poverty.
— Edith Wharton
It was easy enough to despise the world, but decidedly difficult to find any other habitable region.
— Edith Wharton
Both had let him feel that interesting failures may be worth more in the end than dull successes ...
— Edith Wharton
You thought I was a lovelorn mistress and I was really just an expensive prostitute.
— Edith Wharton
It is surprising how little narrow walls and a low ceiling matter, when the roof of the soul has suddenly been raised.
— Edith Wharton
One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.
— Edith Wharton
Yes: I was down there once, and for a good while afterward I could call up the sight of it in winter. But now it's all snowed under.
— Edith Wharton
She would not have put herself out so much to say so little.
— Edith Wharton
They had never been at peace together, they two; and now he felt himself drawn downward into the strange mysterious depths of her tranquillity.
— Edith Wharton
Make ones center of life inside ones self, not selfishly or excludingly, but with a kind of unassailable serenity.
— Edith Wharton
...life makes ugly faces at us sometimes, I know.
— Edith Wharton
Life's just a perpetual piecing together of broken bits.
— Edith Wharton
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[The world] is not a pretty place; and the only way to keep a footing in it is to fight it on its own terms - and above all, my dear, not alone!
— Edith Wharton
In the dissolution of sentimental partnerships it is seldom that both associates are able to withdraw their funds at the same time ...
— Edith Wharton
He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled dreams of an inarticulate lifetime.
— Edith Wharton
Believe me, all of you, the best way to help the places we live in is to be glad we live there.
— Edith Wharton
Every literature, in its main lines, reflects the chief characteristics of the people for whom, and about whom, it is written.
— Edith Wharton
But I am born happy every morning,
— Edith Wharton
Ut it seemed to him that the tie between husband and wife, if breakable in prosperity, should be indissoluble in misfortune.
— Edith Wharton
Mr. Gryce was like a merchant whose warehouses are crammed with an unmarketable commodity.
— Edith Wharton
The real alchemy consists in being able to turn gold back again into something else; and that's the secret that most of your friends have lost.
— Edith Wharton
What is truth? Where a woman is concerned, it's the story that's easiest to believe.
— Edith Wharton
A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.
— Edith Wharton
Edith learned long ago that men are drawn to women who are either undeniably beautiful or alluringly vulnerable. She's never been either.
— Jennie Fields
He remembered once hearing his grandmother ... say plaintively: Why daughter, I presume I can go without BUT I CAN'T ECONOMIZE. — Edith Wharton
Refurbished that image of herself in other minds which was her only notion of self-seeing
— Edith Wharton
The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!
— Edith Wharton
Every house is a mad-house at some time or another.
— Edith Wharton
Of course he's good-he's too stupid to be bad
— Edith Wharton
They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods.
— Edith Wharton
What a shame it is for a nation to be developing without a sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.
— Edith Wharton
She had everything she wanted, but she still felt, at times, that there were other things she might want if she knew about them.
— Edith Wharton
Ah, good conversation - there's nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
— Edith Wharton
Poetry and art are the breath of life to her.
— Edith Wharton
Mr. and Mrs. Wetherall's circle was so large that God was included in their visiting-list.
— Edith Wharton
She was like some rare flower grown for exhibition, a flower from which every bud had been nipped except the crowning blossom of her beauty.
— Edith Wharton
She had taken everything else from him, and now she meant to take the one thing that made up for it all.
— Edith Wharton
I wonder why rich people always grow fat I suppose it's because there's nothing to worry them.
— Edith Wharton
Courage - that's the secret! If only people who are in love weren't always so afraid of risking their happiness by looking it in the eyes.
— Edith Wharton
That was the way of the world they lived in. Nobody questioned, nobody wondered any more-because nobody had time to remember.
— Edith Wharton
Happiness is a work of art. Handle with care.
— Edith Wharton
The longed-for ships come empty home, founder on the deepAnd eyes first lose their tears and then their sleep. — Edith Wharton
Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
— Edith Wharton
Every one in polite circles knew that, in America, "a gentleman couldn't go into politics." But,
— Edith Wharton
But these backwaters of existence sometimes breed, in their sluggish depths, strange acuities of emotion ... ("Afterward")
— Edith Wharton
It was harder to drown at sunrise than in darkness.
— Edith Wharton
That very afternoon they had seemed full of brilliant qualities; now she saw that they were merely dull in a loud way.
— Edith Wharton
The nearest we have to a Henry James or an Edith Wharton of the East Coast's Wasp upper classes.
— Charlotte Curtis
Her vivid smile was like a light held up to dazzle me.
— Edith Wharton
In the rotation of crops there was a recognised season for wild oats; but they were not to be sown more than once.
— Edith Wharton
is probable that, like the illustrious author of the drama, all were unconscious of any incongruity between their sentiments and actions.
— Edith Wharton
I live by Edith Wharton's rule to get rid of anything neither useful nor beautiful. So I put the TV out on the street.
— Melissa Bank
Women ought to be free - as free as we are,' he declared, making a discovery of which he was too irritated to measure the terrific consequences.
— Edith Wharton
Oh, I am - it's much safer to be fond of dangerous people.
— Edith Wharton
How I hate everything!
— Edith Wharton
Life is made up of compromises.
— Edith Wharton
A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys.
— Edith Wharton
Our blindest impulses become evidence of perspicacity when they fall in with the course of events.
— Edith Wharton
The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm is one of the most inveterate of human instincts. -The Decoration of Houses
— Edith Wharton
The fact that he and she understood each other without a word seemed to bring them nearer than any explanation would have done.
— Edith Wharton
He turned to me, full of a terrifying benevolence.
— Edith Wharton
There are lots of ways of answering a letter - and writing doesn't happen to be mine.
— Edith Wharton
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But he could never be long without trying to find a reason for what she was doing ...
— Edith Wharton
It's you who are telling me; opening my eyes to things I'd looked at so long that I'd ceased to see them.
— Edith Wharton
No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity
— Edith Wharton
Even women have been known to enjoy the privileges of a flat.
— Edith Wharton
To your generation, I must represent the literary equivalent of tufted furniture and gas chandeliers.
— Edith Wharton
Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.
— Edith Wharton
After all, marriage is marriage, and money's money - both useful things in their way ...
— Edith Wharton
People struggled on for years with 'troubles,' but they almost always succumbed to 'complications.
— Edith Wharton
Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.
— Edith Wharton
Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of her life.
— Edith Wharton
She's a monstrously perfect result of the system: the completest proof of its triumph
— Edith Wharton
Even in houses commonly held to be 'booky' one finds, nine times out of ten, not a library but a book-dump.
— Edith Wharton
The boy was not insensitive, he knew; but he had the facility and self-confidence that came of looking at fate not as a master but as an equal.
— Edith Wharton
Some things are best mended by a break.
— Edith Wharton