Quotes by : Edith Wharton

He could not imagine being bored by Susy -- or trying to escape from her if he were. He could not think....

What she craved and really felt herself entitled to was a situation in which the noblest attitude should....

She had in truth no abstract propensity to malice: she did not dislike Lily because the latter was brilliant....

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

The whole truth?" Miss Bart laughed. "What is the truth? Where a woman is concerned, it's the story that's....

I want to put my hand out and touch you. I want to do for you and care for you. I want to be there when....

Believe me, all of you, the best way to help the places we live in is to be glad we live there.

I have tried hard - but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. I can hardly be said to have....

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

Her mind was an hotel where facts came and went like transient lodgers, without leaving their address....