Edith Wharton Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: January 24, 1862 - August 11, 1937
Birthday: January 24
Death: August 11
I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners, crass landscape!! What a horror it is for a whole nation to be developing without the sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.
source: Edith Wharton, Richard Warrington Baldwin Lewis, Nancy Lewis (1988). “The letters of Edith Wharton”, Macmillan Reference USA
topic: Beauty, America, Despair, Crass, Amenities
