Famous Edith Wharton Quotes

  • It frightened him to think what must have gone to the making of her eyes. – Edith Wharton

    It frightened him to think what must have gone to the making of her eyes.– Edith Wharton

  • Oh, Gerty, I wasn’t meant to be good. – Edith Wharton

    Oh, Gerty, I wasn’t meant to be good.– Edith Wharton

  • …life makes ugly faces at us sometimes, I know. – Edith Wharton

    …life makes ugly faces at us sometimes, I know.– Edith Wharton

  • Is there nowhere in an American house where one may be by one’s self? – Edith Wharton

    Is there nowhere in an American house where one may be by one’s self?– Edith Wharton

  • It seems stupid to have discovered America only to make it into a copy of another country. – Edith Wharton

    It seems stupid to have discovered America only to make it into a copy of another country.– Edith Wharton

  • …how much did pride count in the ebullition of passions in his breast? – Edith Wharton

    …how much did pride count in the ebullition of passions in his breast?– Edith Wharton

  • What she craved and really felt herself entitled to was a situation in which the noblest attitude should also be the easiest. – Edith Wharton

    What she craved and really felt herself entitled to was a situation in which the noblest attitude should also be the easiest.– Edith Wharton

  • Ah, no, he did not want May to have that kind of innocence, the innocence that seals the mind against imagination and the heart against experience… – Edith Wharton

    Ah, no, he did not want May to have that kind of innocence, the innocence that seals the mind against imagination and the heart against experience…– Edith Wharton

  • I want to put my hand out and touch you. I want to do for you and care for you. I want to be there when you’re sick and when you’re lonesome. – Edith Wharton

    I want to put my hand out and touch you. I want to do for you and care for you. I want to be there when you’re sick and when you’re lonesome.– Edith Wharton

  • Ah, don’t let us undo what you’ve done!’ she cried. ‘I can’t go back now to that other way of thinking. I can’t love you unless I give you up. – Edith Wharton

    Ah, don’t let us undo what you’ve done!’ she cried. ‘I can’t go back now to that other way of thinking. I can’t love you unless I give you up.– Edith Wharton