The Age of Innocence Quotes

“What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

topic:hiding mystery

“I want somehow to get away with you into a world where words like that—categories like that—won't exist. Where we shall be simply two human beings who love each other, who are the whole of life to each other; and nothing else on earth will...”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

topic:love society

“He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

topic:life

“Voyez-vous, Monsieur, to be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

topic:life worth

“Poetry and art are the breath of life to her.”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

topic:life art poetry

“To me the only death is monotony. I always say to Ellen: Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

topic:death

“A woman's standard of truthfulness was tacitly held to be lower: she was the subject creature, and versed in the arts of the enslaved.”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

topic:truth woman slavery

“The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

topic:truth loneliness

“Women ought to be free—as free as we are”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

topic:women freedom

“he wondered at what age 'nice' women began to speak for themselves.”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

topic:women personality

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