Quotes by Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth

Explore a curated collection of 23 quotes by Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

We are expected to be pretty and well-dressed until we drop. — Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth
Overhead hung a summer sky furrowed with the rush of rockets; and from the east a late moon, pushing up beyond the lofty — Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth
She herself had grown up without any one spot of earth being dearer than another: there was no center of earth pieties, — Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth