Edith Wharton Giving Quotations

Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.

The turnings of life seldon show a sign-post; or rather, though the sign is always there, it is usually placed some distance back, like the notices that give warning of a bad hill or a level railway-crossing.

...and wondering where he had read that clever liars give details, but that the cleverest do not.

Life is either always a tight-rope or a featherbed. Give me a tight-rope.

Staunch and faithful lovers that they are, they give back a hundred fold every sign of love that one ever gives them.

I can't love you unless I give you up.