Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Thought
Ingredients
Without
Sensations
Work
Cook
Believe
Cooks
Make
Material
Never
Materials
Intervening
Shall
Pudding
Art
Sensation

More quotes by Edith Wharton

Image
I swear I only want to hear about you, to know what you've been doing. It's a hundred years since we've met-it may be another hundred before we meet again.
Edith Wharton
Image
He had her in his arms, her face like a wet flower at his lips, and all their vain terrors shriveling up like ghosts at sunrise.
Edith Wharton
Image
She threw back her head with a laugh that made her chins ripple like little waves.
Edith Wharton
Image
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
Image
She wondered if, when human souls try to get too near each other, they do not inevitably become mere blurs to each other's vision.
Edith Wharton
Image
She was very near hating him now yet the sound of his voice, the way the light fell on his thin, dark hair, the way he sat and moved and wore his clothes—she was conscious that even these trivial things were inwoven with her deepest life.
Edith Wharton
Image
Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.
Edith Wharton
Image
I'm not much interested in travelling scholarships for women - or in fact in scholarships, tout court! - they'd much better stay at home and mind the baby. Still less am I interested in scholarships for female Yids.
Edith Wharton
Image
Inkstands and tea-cups are never as full as when one upsets them.
Edith Wharton
Image
Life has a way of overgrowing its achievements as well as its ruins.
Edith Wharton
Image
I can't love you unless I give you up.
Edith Wharton
Image
What a shame it is for a nation to be developing without a sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.
Edith Wharton
Image
The only thing to do is to hug one's friends tight and do one's job.
Edith Wharton
Image
Since the Americans have ceased to have dyspepsia, they have lost the only thing that gave them any expression.
Edith Wharton
Image
Everybody who does anything at all does too much.
Edith Wharton
Image
She was not accustomed to taste the joys of solitude except in company.
Edith Wharton
Image
I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners, crass landscape!! What a horror it is for a whole nation to be developing without the sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.
Edith Wharton
Image
Don't you ever mind, she asked suddenly, not being rich enough to buy all the books you want?
Edith Wharton
Image
Something he knew he had missed: the flower of life. But he thought of it now as a thing so unattainable and improbable that to have repined would have been like despairing because one had not drawn the first prize in a lottery.
Edith Wharton
Image
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