Edith Wharton Quotes

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

Edith Wharton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 24, 1862 - August 11, 1937

Topics

DoingDutyWorstAnythingElse

Ignorant people are apt to overrate the value of what is called education. The sons of the poor, having suffered the privations of poverty, think of wealth as the mother of joy.

Robert Green Ingersoll

EducationMotherValueJoyPeople

When I was fifteen, I spent three weeks driving all over Brooklyn with a guy who was following his girlfriend.

Michael Cimino

DrivingBrooklynThreeGirlfriend

There's humor in everything. There's gotta be humor in everything.

Amy Sedaris

HumorEverythingGotta

A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don't know how to write sentences.

Tom Robbins

ReadyKnowWriteHowNovelAspiring

We're in a leadership position in sports. People look up to the National Football League.

Roger Goodell

LeadershipSportsFootballPeopleUp

I make different films now.

Martin Scorsese

NowDifferentMakeFilms

To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.

Miguel de Unamuno

LoveSpiritPityTo LoveWhoMost

What makes me angry is when people know what is right but have, over the years, attuned themselves to the fact that what they're doing, stealing money from government, is acceptable.

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

MoneyGovernmentAngryPeopleMe

Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something.

Liz Carpenter

LifeWisdomLookingChooseCreate

I'm not a predictable black liberal.

Juan Williams

BlackLiberalPredictable

On the one hand, I'm grateful to be hired and thrilled to be paid.

Christopher Durang

GratefulHandPaidHiredThrilled

The Olympic Movement gives the world an ideal which reckons with the reality of life, and includes a possibility to guide this reality toward the great Olympic Idea.

Pierre de Coubertin

LifeGreatWorldRealityMovement

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