age of innocence quotes

“Everything may be labelled- but everybody is not.”

Who had the right to make her life over if she hadn’t? “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.”

He guessed himself to have been, for months, the center of countless silently observing eyes and patiently listening ears, he understood that, by means as yet unknown to him, the separation between himself and the partner of his guilt had been achieved, and that now the whole tribe had rallied about his wife on the tacit assumption that nobody knew anything, or had ever imagined anything....And as he had seen her that day, so she had remained;... generous, faithful, unwearied; but so lacking in imagination, so incapable of growth, that the world of her youth had fallen into pieces and rebuilt itself without her ever being conscious of the change.... And she had died thinking the world a good place, full of loving and harmonious households like her own, and resigned to leave it because she was convinced that, whatever happened, Newland would continue to inculcate in Dallas the same principles and prejudices which had shaped his parents’ lives, and that Dallas in turn (when Newland followed her) would transmit the sacred trust to little Bill.“She said she knew we were safe with you, and always would be, because once, when she asked you to, you’d given up the thing you most wanted.”“It’s more real to me here than if I went up,” he suddenly heard himself say; and the fear lest that last shadow of reality should lose its edge kept him rooted to his seat as the minutes succeeded each other. Untrained human nature was not frank and innocent, it was full of the twists and turns and defenses of an instinctive guile. “I want - I want somehow to get away with you into a world where words like that -categories like that- won't exist. “She sang, of course, "M'ama!" “I couldn't have spoken like this yesterday, because when we've been apart, and I'm looking forward to seeing you, every thought is burnt up in a great flame. We assign a color and icon like this one

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The Age of Innocence Quotes Next. “It frightened him to think what must have gone to the making of her eyes.” “She gave so many reasons that I've forgotten them all.” “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.” They're like having in-class notes for every discussion!” “Women ought to be free - as free as we are,' he declared, making a discovery of which he was too irritated to measure the terrific consequences.”

...[A]n 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. He perceived that such a picture presupposed, on her part, the experience, the versatility, the freedom of judgment, which she had been carefully trained not to possess; and with a shiver of foreboding he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material and social interests held together by ignorance on the one side and hypocrisy on the other.But when he had gone the brief round of her he returned discouraged by the thought that all this frankness and innocence were only an artificial product. It's a hundred years since we've met-it may be another hundred before we meet again.”

Directed by Martin Scorsese. It frightened him to think what must have gone to the making of her eyes.Does no one want to know the truth here, Mr. Archer?

“And you'll sit beside me, and we'll look, not at visions, but at realities.” Characters. My students love how organized the handouts are and enjoy tracking the themes as a class.” ” LitCharts makes it easy to find quotes by chapter, character, and theme. The very good people didn’t convince me; I felt they’d never been tempted.

“We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?” Instant downloads of all 1345 LitChart PDFs

“Ah, good conversation - there's nothing like it, is there? 224 quotes from The Age of Innocence: ‘Each time you happen to me all over again.’ I’ve wanted to tell you that, when two people really love each other, I understand that there may be situations which might make it right that they should—should go against public opinion.

Written by Martin Scorsese and Jay Cocks.

“But after a moment a sense of waste and ruin overcame him. There they were, close together and safe and shut in; yet so chained to their separate destinies that they might as well been half the world apart.”

“He had married (as most young men did) because he had met a perfectly charming girl at the moment when a series of rather aimless sentimental adventures were ending in premature disgust; and she had represented peace, stability, comradeship, and the steadying sense of an unescapable duty.” “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.” LitCharts uses cookies to personalize our services. Our

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

“It was the old New York way...the way people who dreaded scandal more than disease, who placed decency above courage, and who considered that nothing was more ill-bred than "scenes", except those who gave rise to them.