The Age of Innocence Quotes

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

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

topic:women personality

“Ah, no, he did not want May to have that kind of innocence, the innocence that seals the mind against imagination and the heart against experience!”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

topic:heart imagination

“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.”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

topic:understanding music language

“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”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

topic:reality

“And you'll sit beside me, and we'll look, not at visions, but at realities.”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

topic:reality

“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

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