Quotes by : Edith Wharton

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

Each time you happen to me all over again.

If you're as detached as that, why does the obsolete institution of marriage survive with you?"Oh, it....

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

Does no one want to know the truth here, Mr. Archer? The real loneliness is living among all these kind....

She herself had grown up without any one spot of earth being dearer than another: there was no center....

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

Don't you ever mind," she asked suddenly, "not being rich enough to buy all the books you want?

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

The noble buoyancy of her attitude, its suggestion of soaring grace, revealed the touch of poetry in....