Edith Wharton Quotes

“So close to the powers of evil she must have lived that she still breathed more freely in their air.”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

topic:evil

“She gave so many reasons that I've forgotten them all.”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

topic:reason

“It surprised him that life should be going on in the old way when his own reactions to it had so completely changed.”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

topic:change

“The taste of the usual was like cinders in his mouth, and there were moments when he felt as if he were being buried alive under his future.”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

topic:future boredom

“His whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled before him; and passing down its endless emptiness he saw the dwindling figure of a man to whom nothing was ever to happen.”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

topic:future boredom

“He was weary of living in a perpetual tepid honeymoon, without the temperature of passion yet with all its exactions.”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

topic:passion marriage

“Is there nowhere in an American house where one may be by one's self?”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

topic:loneliness

“After all, marriage is marriage, and money's money—both useful things in their way ...”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

topic:marriage money

“He felt, no doubt, more sorry for her than her indignant relatives; but it seemed to him that the tie between husband and wife, even if breakable in prosperity, should be indissoluble in misfortune.”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

“I'm of your making much more than you ever were of mine. I'm the man who married one woman because another one told him to.”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

topic:marriage obedience

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