661 Quotes by Edith Wharton

Life's just a perpetual piecing together of broken bits.

In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive log past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.

I swear I only want to hear about you, to know what you've been doing. It's a hundred years since we've met-it may be another hundred before we meet again.

Blessed are the pure in heart for they have so many more things to talk about.

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?

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?

... even in houses commonly held to be 'booky' one finds, nine times out of ten, not a library but a book-dump.

Her vivid smile was like a light held up to dazzle me.

It must be less wicked to love the wrong person than not to love anybody at all.