661 Quotes by Edith Wharton

I shan't be lonely now. I was lonely; I was afraid. But the emptiness and the darkness are gone; when I turn back into myself now I'm like a child going at night into a room where there's always a light.

I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.

There are two ways to spread happiness; either be the light who shines it or be the mirror who reflects it.

The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.

He simply felt that if he could carry away the vision of the spot of earth she walked on, and the way the sky and sea enclosed it, the rest of the world might seem less empty.

If proportion is the good breeding of architecture, symmetry, or the answering of one part to another, may be defined as the sanity of decoration.

I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.

And you'll sit beside me, and we'll look, not at visions, but at realities.

The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.