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Edith Wharton

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Edith Wharton is proof that you do not need celebrity to say something worth remembering. Their thinking spans from Wisdom to Time, revealing a mind that refused to stay in one lane. Our collection holds 11 quotes from Edith Wharton, each offering a different angle on Wisdom, Time, Money, Inspirational, and Imagination. Start here and see if you agree: "The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it."

“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

Imagination

All Quotes by Edith Wharton

“Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.”

— Edith Wharton

Art

“The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.”

— Edith Wharton

Money

“Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.”

— Edith Wharton

Age

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”

— Edith Wharton

Inspirational

“Life is the only real counselor wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.”

— Edith Wharton

Experience

“If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.”

— Edith Wharton

Good

“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

Imagination