Edith Wharton Quotes

It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness.

She threw back her head with a laugh that made her chins ripple like little waves.

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

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

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

I suppose 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.

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

She herself had grown up without any one spot of earth being dearer than another: there was no center of earth pieties, of grave endearing traditions, to which her heart could revert and from which it could draw strength for itself and tenderness for others.