Edith Wharton Quotes & Quotations

Edith Wharton Quotes

» A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.

» There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

» I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners, crass landscape!! What a horror it is for a whole nation to be developing without the sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.

» My first few weeks in America are always miserable, because the tastes I am cursed with are all of a kind that cannot be gratified here, and I am not enough in sympathy with our ''gross public'' to make up for the lack on the aesthetic side. One's friends are delightful; but we are none of us Americans, we don't think or feel as the Americans do, we are the wretched exotics produced in a European glass-house, the most displaced and useless class on earth!

» There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when we were all feeding off their gold plate; not now! At present they have not only my sympathy but my preference. They are the last representatives of our native industries.

» After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.

» Mrs. Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet it alone.

» 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.

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

» How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be ''American'' before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, and having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries?

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