The only way not to think about money is... by Edith Wharton | We Heart Quotes

Author Novelist Money Pulitzer Prize American Literature

The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

- Edith Wharton

Other quotes by Edith Wharton

Time People

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.

- Edith Wharton

May

Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.

- Edith Wharton

She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making.

- Edith Wharton

Age Freedom

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

- Edith Wharton

Virtue

A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.

- Edith Wharton

Want People

What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out.

- Edith Wharton

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