Edith Wharton Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.

  Edith Wharton

  New York, Divorce, Literature

  Edith Wharton (2011). “The New York Stories of Edith Wharton”, p.119, New York Review of Books

• True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

  Edith Wharton

  Vision, Literature, Originality

  Edith Wharton (2014). “The Writing of Fiction”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

• The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

  Edith Wharton

  Money, Thinking, Literature

  Edith Wharton (2015). “The House of Mirth”, p.69, Xist Publishing

• Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

  Edith Wharton

  Art, Fear, Immature

  The Writing of Fiction (1925) ch. 1

• Life is always either; a tight -rope or a feather-bed . — Give me the tightrope.

  Edith Wharton

  Life, Giving, Bed

• Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.

  Edith Wharton

  Silence, Literature, May

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.1366, Delphi Classics

• 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.

  Edith Wharton

  Fate, Destiny, Men

  Edith Wharton (2012). “The Age of Innocence”, p.228, Courier Corporation

• Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.

  Edith Wharton

  Happiness, Alive, Literature

  Edith Wharton (2016). “A Backward Glance”, p.4, Edith Wharton

• In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.

  Edith Wharton

  Tears, Literature, Enough

  Edith Wharton (2014). “The Writing of Fiction”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

• Wherein lies a poet's claim to originality? That he invents his incidents? No. That he was present when his episodes had their birth? No. That he was first to repeat them? No. None of these things has any value. He confers on them their only originality that has any value, and that is his way of telling them." Mark Twain "...every literature, in its main lines, reflects the chief characteristics of the people for whom, and about whom, it is written.

  Edith Wharton

  Lying, People, Firsts

• Do you know-I hardly remembered you?
  Hardly remembered me?
  I mean: how shall I explain? I-it's always so. Each time you happen to me all over again.

  Edith Wharton

  Mean, Literature, Remembered

  Edith Wharton (2016). “The Age of Innocence: American Literature”, p.200, VM eBooks

• Once more it was borne in on him that marriage was not the safe anchorage he had been taught to think, but a voyage on uncharted seas.

  Edith Wharton

  Thinking, Sea, Literature

  "The Age of Innocence".

• 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.

  Edith Wharton

  Views, Political, Literature

  Edith Wharton, Richard Warrington Baldwin Lewis, Nancy Lewis (1988). “The letters of Edith Wharton”, Macmillan Reference USA

• Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.

  Edith Wharton

  Time, Age, Leaves Of Grass

• Leisure, itself the creation of wealth, is incessantly engaged in transmuting wealth into beauty by secreting the surplus energy which flowers in great architecture, great painting and great literature. Only in the atmosphere thus engendered floats that impalpable dust of ideas which is the real culture. A colony of ants or bees will never create a Parthenon.

  Edith Wharton

  Real, Flower, Dust

• What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out.

  Edith Wharton

  People, Ems, Use

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2113, Delphi Classics

• ...every literature, in its main lines, reflects the chief characteristics of the people for whom, and about whom, it is written.

  Edith Wharton

  People, Literature, Lines

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.4525, Delphi Classics

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

  Edith Wharton

  Substance, Literature, Lilies

  Edith Wharton (2016). “The House of Mirth: Edith Wharton”, p.33, VM eBooks

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

  Edith Wharton

  Mind, Literature, Landscape

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