"The Age of Innocence" Quotes
A man in 1870s New York society is torn between his love for a scandalous woman and his duty to marry within his social class.
classics | 292 pages | Published in 2008
Quotes
Each time you happen to me all over again.
They lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only represented by a set of arbitrary signs.
The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!
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.
The worst of doing one’s duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.
There is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Archer, because to influence a person is to give him one’s own soul.
Women ought to be free - as free as we are.
In reality they all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only represented by a set of arbitrary signs.
I’m not afraid of being poor; I’m afraid of being rich.
Ah, my dear! I always knew you were on the side of the strong!
