Age Of Innocence Quotes

Question 1

Lawrence Lefferts: Mingotts at the opera trying It on

Answer 1

I dont think the Mingotts would have tried it on

Question 2

Ellen: Old place of heaven

Answer 2

This dear old place is heaven

Question 3

Shouldn’t have to slink about if she didn’t disgrace herself

Answer 3

Why should she slink about as if it were she who had disgraced herself

Question 4

Newland: discussing hypocrisy that could bury a gender because of her choices

Answer 4

I’m sick of the hypocrisy that would bury alive a woman of her age

Question 5

Newland discussing how women should be free

Answer 5

Women ought to be free, as free as we are

Question 6

Discussion of living in a hieroglyphic world

Answer 6

They all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world

Question 7

Discussing if dont stand together no society left

Answer 7

If we don’t stand together there’ll be no such thing as society left

Question 8

Ellen discussing being a dull man

Answer 8

I think hes the dullest man I ever met

Question 9

Discussing of loneliness living among kind people who only ask you to pretend

Answer 9

The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!”
Who says it?

Question 10

Truth, reality and life that belonged to him

Answer 10

Here was truth, here was reality, here was the life that belonged to him”

Question 11

Marriage repitition and niece still wife

Answer 11

Marriage is marriage and my niece is still a wife

Question 12

Archer not picturing his wife in that setting

Answer 12

Archer had not been able to picture his wife in that particular setting

Question 13

No use trying to emancipate wife that doesn’t know not free

Answer 13

No use trying to emancipate a wife that had not the dimmest notion that she was not free

Question 14

Marriage being a sacrifice

Answer 14

Marriave is one long sacrifice

Question 15

Ellen: first glimpse of real life

Answer 15

You gave me my first glimpse of real life

Question 16

Discussing being young and how much life left to live on

Answer 16

How young she is. For what endless years this life will have to go on

Question 17

Beaufort covered her in jewels and then shame

Answer 17

Beaufort when he covered you with jewels, and it’s got to stay Beaufort now when he covers you with shame

Question 18

Each time you happen to me again

Answer 18

Ellen

Question 19

Had to look at gorgon

Answer 19

I’ve had to look at the gorgon

Question 20

Ellen: Where is country

Answer 20

Where is that country have you ever been there

Question 21

Dead dead for month repetition

Answer 21

I am dead, I’ve been dead for months and months

Question 22

Turned to door torn muddy wedding dress dragging

Answer 22

“she turned to the door, her torn and muddy wedding-dress dragging after her across the room

Question 23

All he and madame Olenska lovers

Answer 23

To all of them he and madame Olenska were lovers

Question 24

May was right, her blue eyes wet victory

Answer 24

And you see I was right, her blue eyes wet with victory

Question 25

Something he missed, flower of life

Answer 25

Something he knew he had missed: the flower of life

Question 26

Real to me if didn’t go up

Answer 26

Its more real to me here than if I went up