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
One can remain alive ... if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity interested in big things and happy in small ways.
Life is either always a tight-rope or a featherbed. Give me a tight-rope.
Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.
Life is made up of compromises.
Yes, one gets over things. But there are certain memories one can't bit on.
Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any.
We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?
Life is the saddest thing there is, next to death.
Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
It seemed to him that the tie between husband and wife, even if breakable in prosperity, should be indissoluble in misfortune.
The mere idea of a woman's appealing to her family to screen her husband's business dishonour was inadmisible, since it was the one thing that the Family, as an institution, could not do.
Everything about her was both vigorous and exquisite.