Edith Wharton Quotes About Values

Quotes about: Values

• In our hurried world too little value is attached to the part of the connoisseur and dilettante.

  Edith Wharton

  Happiness, World, Littles

  Edith Wharton (2016). “A Backward Glance”, p.113, Edith Wharton

• Wherein lies a poet's claim to originality? That he invents his incidents? No. That he was present when his episodes had their birth? No. That he was first to repeat them? No. None of these things has any value. He confers on them their only originality that has any value, and that is his way of telling them." Mark Twain "...every literature, in its main lines, reflects the chief characteristics of the people for whom, and about whom, it is written.

  Edith Wharton

  Lying, People, Firsts

• The value of books is proportionate to what may be called their plasticity -- their quality of being all things to all men, of being diversely moulded by the impact of fresh forms of thought.

  Edith Wharton

  Book, Men, Impact

  Edith Wharton (2012). “Summer”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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