Top 27 Quotes by Edith Wharton

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

The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.

Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.

After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.

Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.

The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.

He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.

To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?

In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.

The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.