Edith Wharton

After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#bewildering #critics #invent #knows #others

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. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#ask #half #letter #long #more

What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#making #mysteries #nose #only #out

To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it? ↗

— Edith Wharton

#face #life #living #look #worth

The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#apparently #doing #duty #else #unfitted

The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#background #foreground #landscape #mind

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

— Edith Wharton

#deal #great #great deal #money #only

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

#breadth #broad #calm #death #delicious