Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
To visit Morocco is still like turning the pages of some illuminated Persian manuscript all embroidered with bright shapes and subtle lines.
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
Pages
Illuminated
Lines
Persian
Stills
Manuscripts
Still
Visit
Like
Subtle
Turning
Embroidered
Bright
Morocco
Shapes
Manuscript
More quotes by Edith Wharton
The effect produced by a short story depends almost entirely on its form.
Edith Wharton
Almost everybody in the neighborhood had troubles, frankly localized and specified but only the chosen had complications. To have them was in itself a distinction, though it was also, in most cases, a death warrant. People struggled on for years wit
Edith Wharton
Life is always either a tight -rope or a feather-bed . — Give me the tightrope.
Edith Wharton
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
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
Life has a way of overgrowing its achievements as well as its ruins.
Edith Wharton
She was not accustomed to taste the joys of solitude except in company.
Edith Wharton
I don't believe in God, but I do believe in His saints.
Edith Wharton
If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.
Edith Wharton
People struggled on for years with 'troubles,' but they almost always succumbed to 'complications.
Edith Wharton
A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.
Edith Wharton
Life is made up of compromises.
Edith Wharton
The taste of the usual was like cinders in his mouth, and there were moments when he felt as if he were being buried alive under his future.
Edith Wharton
I wonder why rich people always grow fat I suppose it's because there's nothing to worry them.
Edith Wharton
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Edith Wharton
...and wondering where he had read that clever liars give details, but that the cleverest do not.
Edith Wharton
It was harder to drown at sunrise than in darkness.
Edith Wharton
traditions that have lost their meaning are the hardest of all to destroy.
Edith Wharton
And all the while, I suppose, he thought, real people were living somewhere, and real things happening to them.
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