Edith Wharton

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

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. ”

I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story. ”

Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death. ”

There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny. ”

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before. ”