Edith Wharton 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

• Otro elemento inquietante del arte moderno es ese síntoma común de la inmadurez, el pavor a hacer lo que ya se ha hecho antes.

  Edith Wharton

  Art, Fear, Immature

  The Writing of Fiction (1925) ch. 1

• La vida es siempre o una cuerda floja o un colchón de plumas. - Dame la cuerda floja.

  Edith Wharton

  Vida, Dar, Cama

• El silencio puede tener matices tan variados como el habla.

  Edith Wharton

  Silencio, Literatura, Mayo

  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

  Suerte, Destino, Hombres

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

• El hábito es necesario; es el hábito de tener hábitos, de convertir un sendero en un atolladero, contra el que hay que luchar incesantemente si se quiere seguir vivo.

  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".

• Nunca he conocido una novela que fuera lo suficientemente buena a pesar de estar adaptada a las opiniones políticas del autor.

  Edith Wharton

  Views, Political, Literature

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

• La vejez, tranquila, expandida, amplia con la altiva amplitud del universo, la vejez fluyendo libre con la deliciosa libertad cercana de la muerte.

  Edith Wharton

  Time, Age, Leaves Of Grass

• El ocio, en sí mismo creación de riqueza, se dedica incesantemente a transmutar la riqueza en belleza segregando la energía sobrante que florece en la gran arquitectura, la gran pintura y la gran literatura. Sólo en la atmósfera así engendrada flota ese polvo impalpable de ideas que es la verdadera cultura. Una colonia de hormigas o de abejas nunca creará un Partenón.

  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

• La desgracia había flexibilizado a Lily en lugar de endurecerla, y una sustancia flexible es menos fácil de romper que una rígida.

  Edith Wharton

  Substance, Literature, Lilies

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

• El paisaje americano no tiene primer plano y la mente americana no tiene fondo.

  Edith Wharton

  Mind, Literature, Landscape

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