Quotes by : Edith Wharton

You see, Monsieur, it's worth everything, isn't it, to keep one's intellectual liberty, not to enslave....

If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.

A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys.

Dialogue in fiction should be reserved for the culminating moments and regarded as the spray into which....

I went on steadily trying to 'find out how to'; but I wrote two or three novels without feeling that....

She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making.

Medora Manson, in her prosperous days, inaugurated a "literary salon"; but it had soon died out owing....

The blast that swept him came off New Hampshire snow-fields and ice-hung forests. It seemed to have traversed....

...though she had not had the strength to shake off the spell that bound her to him she had lost all....

Archer had always been inclined to think that chance and circumstance played a small part in shaping....