Edith Wharton

The Age of Innocence

  • Diana Shamshas quoted6 years ago
    She and Mr. van der Luyden were so exactly alike that Archer often wondered how, after forty years of the closest conjugality, two such merged identities ever separated themselves enough for anything as controversial as a talking-over.
  • b6592819865has quoted3 years ago
    When Newland Archer
  • Anna Osipovahas quoted3 years ago
    Now, as he reviewed his past, he saw into what a deep rut he had sunk. The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else. At least that was the view that the men of his generation had taken. The trenchant divisions between right and wrong, honest and dishonest, respectable and the reverse, had left so little scope for the unforeseen. There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level, and surveys the long windings of destiny. Archer hung there and wondered....
  • Rizqa Rayyanahas quoted2 months ago
    tulle tucker fastened
  • Zane Anta Kukainehas quoted9 months ago
    er to dine out—I wish you would say to Mrs.
  • Reet Kaurhas quotedlast year
    the long interval
  • Jana Hegazyhas quoted2 years ago
    She sang, of course, "M'ama!" and not "he loves me," since an unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.
  • Jana Hegazyhas quoted2 years ago
    The second reason for his delay was a personal one. He had dawdled over his cigar because he was at heart a dilettante, and thinking over a pleasure to come often gave him a subtler satisfaction than its realisation.
  • Jana Hegazyhas quoted2 years ago
    he had dined at seven, alone with his mother and sister, and had lingered afterward over a cigar in the Gothic library with glazed black-walnut bookcases and finial-topped chairs which was the only room in the house where Mrs. Archer allowed smoking
  • Chau Anh Hoanghas quoted2 years ago
    "You say that because it's the easiest thing to say at this moment—not because it's true.
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