Edith Wharton Quotes

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

The moment my eyes fell on him, I was content.

Edith Wharton

The persons of their world lived in an atmosphere of faint implications and pale delicacies, and the fact that he and she understood each other without a word seemed to the young man to bring them nearer than any explanation would have done.

Edith Wharton

Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?

Edith Wharton

My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet.

Edith Wharton
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