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Quotes by

Edith Wharton

There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when we were all feeding off their gold plate; not now! At present they have not only my sympathy but my preference. They are the last representatives of our native industries. – Edith Wharton

There are two ways to spread happiness; either be the light who shines it or be the mirror who reflects it. – Edith Wharton

There are moments when a mans imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny. – Edith Wharton

If only wed stop trying to be happy wed have a pretty good time. – Edith Wharton

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

Life is the only real counselor wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue. – Edith Wharton

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before. – Edith Wharton

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

People pay for what they do, and still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it simply: by the lives they lead. – Edith Wharton

If only we’d stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time. – Edith Wharton

My little dog — a heartbeat at my feet. – Edith Wharton

They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods. – Edith Wharton

There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one’s self, the very meaning of one’s soul. – Edith Wharton