Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton
Edith Whartonwas a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927, 1928 and 1930. Wharton combined her insider's view of America's privileged classes with a brilliant, natural wit to write humorous, incisive novels and short stories of social and psychological insight. She was well acquainted with many of her era's other literary and public figures, including Theodore Roosevelt...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth24 January 1862
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Everything may be labelled- but everybody is not.
A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys.
No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity.
Ah, good conversation - there's nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
He knelt by the bed and bent over her, draining their last moment to its lees; and in the silence there passed between them the word which made all clear.
Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
In our hurried world too little value is attached to the part of the connoisseur and dilettante.
Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
I want to put my hand out and touch you. I want to do for you and care for you. I want to be there when you're sick and when you're lonesome.
Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.
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.
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.
There are two ways to spread happiness; either be the light who shines it or be the mirror who reflects it.