If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.The Last Asset, 1904
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Edith Wharton (1862–1937) was an American novelist and short story writer known for her works that depict the lives and morals of the American upper class during the Gilded Age. She was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1921 for her novel "The Age of Innocence."
1862–1937·lived 75 years
If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.The Last Asset, 1904
Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.The Writing of Fiction, p. 45, 1925
My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet.The Letters of Edith Wharton, p. 123, 2016
True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.The Writing of Fiction, p. 45, 1925
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.Vesalius in Zante, 1902
Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.The Writing of Fiction, 1925
That is my principal objection to life, I think: It is too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes.A Backward Glance, 1934
That’s all 9 quotes by Edith Wharton.