Quotes by Wharton, Edith

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror >>

I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of >>

There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American att >>

Quotations about America

America is a willingness of the heart. >>

The American mood, perhaps even the American character, has changed. T >>

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intel >>

I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners, crass landscape!! What a horror it is for a whole nation to be developing without the sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.

Wharton, Edith