The worst of doing one’s duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else. Edith Wharton Read Quote
In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears. Edith Wharton Read Quote
He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime. Edith Wharton Read Quote
There are moments when a man’s imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny. Edith Wharton Read Quote
To be able to look life in the face: that’s worth living in a garret for, isn’t it? Edith Wharton Read Quote
I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author’s political views. Edith Wharton Read Quote
Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before. Edith Wharton Read Quote
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 Read Quote
What’s the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose ’em out. Edith Wharton Read Quote
The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background. Edith Wharton Read Quote
