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Edith Wharton Inspirational Quotes (144)
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It is almost as stupid to let your clothes betray that you know you are ugly as to have them proclaim that you think you are beautiful.
Edith Wharton
Don't they always go from bad to worse? There's no turning back--your old self rejects you, and shuts you out. ~Lilly Bart
Edith Wharton
Don't you ever mind, she asked suddenly, not being rich enough to buy all the books you want?
Edith Wharton
Everybody who does anything at all does too much.
Edith Wharton
After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
Edith Wharton
In the rotation of crops there was a recognized season for wild oats but they were not sown more than once.
Edith Wharton
Poetry and art are the breath of life to her.
Edith Wharton
Once more it was borne in on him that marriage was not the safe anchorage he had been taught to think, but a voyage on uncharted seas.
Edith Wharton
One of the first obligations of art is to make all useful things beautiful.
Edith Wharton
The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.
Edith Wharton
Ah, the poverty, the miserable poverty, of any love that lies outside of marriage, of any love that is not a living together, a sharing of all!
Edith Wharton
Dialogue in fiction should be reserved for the culminating moments and regarded as the spray into which the great wave of narrative breaks in curving towards the watcher on the shore.
Edith Wharton
There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when we were all feeding off their gold plate not now! At present they have not only my sympathy but my preference. They are the last representatives of our native industries.
Edith Wharton
She was so evidently the victim of the civilization which had produced her, that the links of her bracelet seemed like manacles chaining her to her fate.
Edith Wharton
She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making.
Edith Wharton
Yes, one gets over things. But there are certain memories one can't bit on.
Edith Wharton
Inkstands and tea-cups are never as full as when one upsets them.
Edith Wharton
Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.
Edith Wharton
Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
Edith Wharton
The only thing to do is to hug one's friends tight and do one's job.
Edith Wharton
It frightened him to think what must have gone to the making of her eyes.
Edith Wharton
The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
Edith Wharton
To visit Morocco is still like turning the pages of some illuminated Persian manuscript all embroidered with bright shapes and subtle lines.
Edith Wharton
When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.
Edith Wharton
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