Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Habit is necessary it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.
Edith Wharton
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Edith Wharton
Age: 75 †
Born: 1862
Born: January 24
Died: 1937
Died: August 11
Novelist
Poet
Prosaist
Translator
Writer
New York City
New York
Edith Newbold Jones
Edith Newbold Jones Wharton
Must
Turning
Ruts
Remain
Unafraid
Necessary
Incessantly
Habit
Insatiable
Walking
Trail
Alive
Trails
Literature
Fought
Happiness
Habits
More quotes by Edith Wharton
there are lots of ways of answering a letter - and writing doesn't happen to be mine.
Edith Wharton
We live in our own souls as in an unmapped region, a few acres of which we have cleared for our habitation while of the nature of those nearest us we know but the boundaries that march with ours.
Edith Wharton
He had married (as most young men did) because he had met a perfectly charming girl at the moment when a series of rather aimless sentimental adventures were ending in premature disgust and she had represented peace, stability, comradeship, and the steadying sense of an unescapable duty.
Edith Wharton
Inkstands and tea-cups are never as full as when one upsets them.
Edith Wharton
Until the raw ingredients of a pudding make a pudding, I shall never believe that the raw material of sensation and thought can make a work of art without the cook's intervening.
Edith Wharton
She was not accustomed to taste the joys of solitude except in company.
Edith Wharton
True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision. That new, that personal, vision is attained only by looking long enough at the object represented to make it the writer's own and the mind which would bring this secret gem to fruition must be able to nourish it with an accumulated wealth of knowledge and experience.
Edith Wharton
She threw back her head with a laugh that made her chins ripple like little waves.
Edith Wharton
True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
Edith Wharton
I have drunk of the wine of life at last, I have known the thing best worth knowing, I have been warmed through and through, never to grow quite cold again till the end.
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
There was no use in trying to emancipate a wife who had not the dimmest notion that she was not free.
Edith Wharton
The true felicity of a lover of books is the luxurious turning of page by page, the surrender, not meanly abject, but deliberate and cautious, with your wits about you, as you deliver yourself into the keeping of the book. This I call reading.
Edith Wharton
They are all alike you know. They hold their tongues for years and you think you're safe, but when the opportunity comes they remember everything.
Edith Wharton
Since the Americans have ceased to have dyspepsia, they have lost the only thing that gave them any expression.
Edith Wharton
Poetry and art are the breath of life to her.
Edith Wharton
I discovered early that crying makes my nose red, and the knowledge has helped me through several painful episodes.
Edith Wharton
In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.
Edith Wharton
I was never allowed to read the popular American children's books of my day because, as my mother said, the children spoke bad English without the author's knowing it.
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