Edith Wharton Quotes

  • True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.Upload to Facebook
    True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
    ~ Edith Wharton
  • There are two ways of spreading light, to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
    ~ Edith Wharton
  • There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
    ~ Edith Wharton
  • Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.
    ~ Edith Wharton
  • People pay for what they do, and still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it simply: by the lives they lead.Upload to Facebook
    People pay for what they do, and still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it simply: by the lives they lead.
    ~ Edith Wharton
  • There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul.
    ~ Edith Wharton
  • People pay for what they do, and still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it simply: by the lives they lead.
    ~ Edith Wharton
  • Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.Upload to Facebook
    Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.
    ~ Edith Wharton
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