661 Quotes by Edith Wharton

Cuando un hombre amaba a una mujer ésta siempre tenía la edad que él quisiera; y cuando dejaba de amarla se convertía en demasiado vieja para los hechizos o en demasiado joven para la técnica .

And all the while, I suppose," he thought, "real people were living somewhere, and real things happening to them ...

It was harder to drown at sunrise than in darkness.

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.

There was no use in trying to emancipate a wife who had not the dimmest notion that she was not free.

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.

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

Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.

She felt a stealing sense of fatigue as she walked; the sparkle had died out of her, and the taste of life was stale on her lips. She hardly knew what she had been seeking, or why the failure to find it had so blotted the light from her sky: she was only aware of a vague sense of failure, of an inner isolation deeper than the loneliness about her.