Edith Wharton Quotes, Thoughts and images
It was harder to drown at sunrise than in darkness.
Inkstands and tea-cups are never as full as when one upsets them.
Her failure was a useful preliminary to success.
She was not accustomed to taste the joys of solitude except in company.
She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making.
We ought to be opening a bottle of wine!
As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch.
Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.
Life is made up of compromises.
True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
Only the fact that we are unaware how well our nearest know us enables us to live with them.
The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
Every house is a mad-house at some time or another.
Each time you happen to me all over again.
There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
It was easy enough to despise the world, but decidedly difficult to find any other habitable region.
In our hurried world too little value is attached to the part of the connoisseur and dilettante.
Life has a way of overgrowing its achievements as well as its ruins.
In every heart there should be one grief that is like a well in the desert.
The only thing to do is to hug one's friends tight and do one's job.
Our blindest impulses become evidence of perspicacity when they fall in with the course of events.
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
The visible world is a daily miracle, for those who have eyes and ears.
Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any.
Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.
Happiness is a work of art. Handle with care.
Some things are best mended by a break.
If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.
Life's just a perpetual piecing together of broken bits.
Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions.
The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!
An education is like a crumbling building that needs constant upkeep with repairs and additions.
Life is the saddest thing there is, next to death.
When a man says he doesn't understand a woman it's because he won't take the trouble.
One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.