Get Your Premium Membership

Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton Photo
Biography | All Poems | Best Poems | Short Poems | Quotes

Edith Wharton (/ ' i d ' w r t n / ; born Edith Newbold Jones, January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937) was a Pulitzer Prize -winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in years 1927, 1928 and 1930.


Poems are below...



Articles

Articles about Edith Wharton or articles that mention Edith Wharton.

Sorry, no articles found.

More Information

Quotes

Here are a few random quotes by Edith Wharton.

See also: All Edith Wharton Quotes

Quote Left When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say. Quote Right
Go to Quote / Comment

Quote Left Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before. Quote Right
Go to Quote / Comment

Quote Left Almost everybody in the neighborhood had troubles, frankly localized and specified; but only the chosen had complications. To have them was in itself a distinction, though it was also, in most cases, a death warrant. People struggled on for years wit Quote Right
Go to Quote / Comment

Quote Left I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and... Quote Right
Go to Quote / Comment

Quote Left There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. Quote Right
Go to Quote / Comment


Book: Reflection on the Important Things