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Inkstands and tea-cups are ne...

Inkstands and tea-cups are never as full as when one upsets them.

Edith Wharton 287 quotes

In reality they all lived in ...

In reality they all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only represented by a set of arbitrary signs.

Edith Wharton 287 quotes

Another unsettling element in...

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

Edith Wharton 287 quotes

The desire for symmetry, for ...

The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm in form as well as in sound, is one of the most inveterate of human instincts.

Edith Wharton 287 quotes

I don't know that I should ca...

I don't know that I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want some one who made it interesting.

Edith Wharton 287 quotes

Life is the only real counsel...

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

Edith Wharton 287 quotes

Habit is necessary; it is the...

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 287 quotes

I had the story, bit by bit, ...

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 287 quotes

Life is always a tightrope or...

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

Edith Wharton 287 quotes

Old age, calm, expanded, broa...

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 287 quotes

What's the use of making myst...

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

Edith Wharton 287 quotes

He had to deal all at once wi...

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

Edith Wharton 287 quotes

When people ask for time, it'...

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 287 quotes

I have never known a novel th...

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 287 quotes

There are moments when a man'...

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 287 quotes

There are two ways of spreadi...

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

Edith Wharton 287 quotes

I don't know if I should care...

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 287 quotes

In any really good subject, o...

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

Edith Wharton 287 quotes

The air of ideas is the only ...

The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.

Edith Wharton 287 quotes

The only way not to think abo...

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

Edith Wharton 287 quotes

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