Edith Wharton Quotes About Archer

Quotes about: Archer

• 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." Archer received this strange communication in silence. His eyes remained unseeingly fixed on the thronged sunlit square below the window. At length he said in a low voice: "She never asked me.

  Edith Wharton

  Communication, Archer, Eye

  Edith Wharton (2012). “The Age of Innocence”, p.231, Courier Corporation

• Archer reddened to the temples but dared not move or speak: it was as if her words had been some rare butterfly that the least motion might drive off on startled wings, but that might gather a flock if it were left undisturbed.

  Edith Wharton

  Moving, Archer, Butterfly

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2116, Delphi Classics

• But marriage is one long sacrifice.... Chapter 21, Medora Manson speaking to Newland Archer

  Edith Wharton

  Archer, Sacrifice, Long

• Archer had always been inclined to think that chance and circumstance played a small part in shaping people's lots compared with their innate tendency to have things happen to them.

  Edith Wharton

  Archer, Thinking, People

  Edith Wharton (2010). “The Age of Innocence”, p.101, Bibliolis Books

• Archer was too intelligent to think that a young woman like Ellen Olenska would necessarily recoil from everything that reminded her of her past. She might believe herself wholly in revolt against it; but what had charmed her in it would still charm her even though it were against her will.

  Edith Wharton

  Believe, Archer, Intelligent

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2047, Delphi Classics

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