What did Edith Wharton mean by: Inkstands and tea-cups are never as full as when one upsets them. Edith Wharton Novelist · United Copy
+ Life is the saddest thing there is, next to death. Author, August 27, 2023January 2, 2025, Edith Wharton, Death, Life, Sadness, 0 Edith Wharton Novelist · United
+ …and wondering where he had read that clever liars give details, but that the cleverest do not. Author, December 14, 2023December 28, 2024, Edith Wharton, Cleverness, Deception, Details, 0 Edith Wharton Novelist · United
+ … there are spines to which the immobility of worship is not a strain. Author, December 14, 2023December 28, 2024, Edith Wharton, Strain, Worship, 0 Edith Wharton Novelist · United
+ … naturalness is not always consonant with taste. Author, July 4, 2023January 2, 2025, Edith Wharton, Dichotomy, Naturalness, Taste, 0 Edith Wharton Novelist · United
+ Life is either always a tight-rope or a featherbed. Give me a tight-rope. Author, December 14, 2023December 28, 2024, Edith Wharton, Challenge, Preference, Risk, 0 Edith Wharton Novelist · United
+ There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it. Author, November 29, 2022December 25, 2024, Edith Wharton, Empowerment, Inspiration, Reflection, 0 Edith Wharton Novelist · United
+ The moment my eyes fell on him, I was content. Author, November 5, 2023January 2, 2025, Edith Wharton, Attraction, Contentment, Love, 0 Edith Wharton Novelist · United
+ No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity. Author, December 14, 2023December 28, 2024, Edith Wharton, Comparison, fragility, Vanity, 0 Edith Wharton Novelist · United
The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
