THE AGE OF INNOCENCE - Quotes
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Society - “hieroglyphic world”
“In reality they all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world”
Society - “The real thing”
“The real thing was never said or done or even thought”
Society - “The individual”
“The individual… is nearly always sacrificed to what is supposed to be the collective interest”
Society - “conspiracy”
“A conspiracy of rehabilitation and obliteration was going on”
May - “blue eyes”
“Her blue eyes wet with victory”
May - “triumphant eyes”
“May’s triumphant eyes shone”
May - “The darling”
“The darling, she doesnt even know what its all about”
May - “lillies of the valley”
“She dropped her eyes to see the immense bouquet of lillies of the valley on her knee”
May - “the darling”
“The darling… she doesnt even know what its all about”
Archer - “Nothing’s done”
“Nothing’s done that cannot be undone”
Archer - “dutiful citizen and husband”
“His whole future seemed to be unrolled before him, and he saw himself a dutiful citizen and husband”
Archer - “simpleton”
“He did not wish the future Mrs Newland Archer to be a simpleton”
Archer - “relic”
“He kissed her palm as if he had kissed a relic”
Archer - “school-boy”
“His senseless school-boy happiness”
Mrs Manson Mingott - “perspicacity”
“He winced a little at her terrifying perspicacity”
Mrs Manson Mingott - “moral courage”
“it was visible proof of her moral courage, and she throned in it”
Sillerton Jackson - “filmy blue eyes”
“He silently scrutinised the group out of filmy blue eyes”
Ellen Olenska - “wet flower”
“Her face like a wet flower at his lips”
Ellen Olenska - “shimmered and glimmered”
“everything about her shimmered and glimmered softly”
Ellen Olenska - “head high”
“she carried her head high”
Ellen Olenska - “heedless of tradition”
“Madame Olenska, heedless of tradition, was attired in a long robe of red velvet”
Chapter 26 - ‘all the strange weeds’
“All the strange weeds pushing up between the ordered rows of social vegetables”
Newland - “sick stare”
“He looked up at her with a sick stare”
May - “She burned”
“She burned like a young maple in the frost”
Newland - “his task”
“his task to take the bandage from this young woman’s eyes”
Writers/ Authors - ‘frag’
“scattered fragments”
Mrs Archer VS Newland Archer - ‘small and’ … ‘he had accepted’
“small and slippery pyramid…” - “he had accepted them as part of his universe”
Ellen Olenska “free”
“I want to be free!”
Beaufort Quotes
“no one really liked Beaufort” - “those who broke the laws of probity must pay”
Newland - ‘she wanted to keep me’
‘she wanted to keep me with her; but I had to be free’
Society - ‘Pet’
‘Pet common people’
Marriage - ‘marriages were a dull association’
‘[marriages were] a dull association of material and social interests’
Archer - ‘it seemed to Archer to be crushing’
‘it seemed to Archer to be curshing him down like his own grave-stone’
Archer - ‘Women ought’
‘Women ought to be free - as free as we are’
Society - ‘Original! We’re all as like each other’
‘Original! We’re all as like each other as those dolls cut out of the same folded piece of paper. Can’t you and I strike out for ourselves, May?’
May - ‘there was no use trying to emancipate’
‘there was no use trying to emancipate a wife who had not the dimmest notion that she was not free’
Ellen - ‘and we’ll look’
‘and we’ll look, not at visions, but at realities’
May - ‘she was simply ripening’
‘She was simply ripening into a copy of her mother’
Newland - ‘something he knew’
‘something he knew he had missed: the flower of life’
Ellen - ‘she had become the’
‘she had become the composite vision of all that he had missed’
May - ‘this hard bright blindness’
‘this hard bright blindness had kept her immediate horizon apparently unaltered’
Newland - ‘its more real’
‘its more real to me here than if I went up’