Edith Wharton Quotes

"The real alchemy consists in being able to turn gold back again into something else; and that's the secret that most of your friends have lost." ~ The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton It is so easy for a woman to become what the man she loves believes her to be! ~ The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton "Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?" ~ The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton It frightened him to think what must have gone to the making of her eyes. ~ The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton "It seems stupid to have discovered America only to make it into a copy of another country." ~ The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton Everything may be labelled—but everybody is not. ~ The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton In reality they all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only represented by a set of arbitrary signs. ~ The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton "Ah, good conversation—there's nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing." ~ The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton "Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any." ~ The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton "I discovered early that crying makes my nose red, and the knowledge has helped me through several painful episodes." ~ The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton