661 Quotes by Edith Wharton

Yes, one gets over things. But there are certain memories one can't bit on.

Every house is a mad-house at some time or another.

Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?

My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet.

We ought to be opening a bottle of wine!

There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.

traditions that have lost their meaning are the hardest of all to destroy.

We shall hurt others less. Isn't it, after all, what you always wanted?

Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.