Quotes by Wharton, Edith

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

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

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contain >>

Quotations about Literature

The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to mak >>

I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the >>

The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of ord >>

I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.

Wharton, Edith