661 Quotes by Edith Wharton

One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.

The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm in form as well as in sound, is one of the most inveterate of human instincts.

Only the fact that we are unaware how well our nearest know us enables us to live with them.

... naturalness is not always consonant with taste.

The short story, free from the longuers of the novel is also exempt from the novel's conclusiveness--too often forced and false: it may thus more nearly than the novel approach aesthetic and moral truth.

Happiness is a work of art. Handle with care.

I feel as if I could trust my happiness to carry me; as if it had grown out of me like wings.

In every heart there should be one grief that is like a well in the desert.

It was easy enough to despise the world, but decidedly difficult to find any other habitable region.