Edith Wharton Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
Edith Wharton quotes and sayings page 2 (deceased author born on Jan 24, 1862). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 27 we have for her.
“After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.”
“True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.”
“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.”
“I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.”
“Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.”
“Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.”
“I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.”
“The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.”
“The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.”
“Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.”
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