Edith Wharton Zitate auf Englisch

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

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

Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.

Edith Wharton

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

Edith Wharton

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

Edith Wharton

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

Edith Wharton

A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.

Edith Wharton

What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out.

Edith Wharton

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

Edith Wharton

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

Edith Wharton

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

Edith Wharton

When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.

Edith Wharton

Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.

Edith Wharton

Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.

Edith Wharton

The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.

Edith Wharton

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

Edith Wharton

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

Edith Wharton

Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.

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

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

Edith Wharton

My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet.

Edith Wharton

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

Edith Wharton

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

Edith Wharton

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

Edith Wharton

I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.

Edith Wharton

I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.

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