Edith Wharton Quotes About Duty

Quotes about: Duty

• I begin to see what marriage is for. It's to keep people away from each other. Sometimes I think that two people who love each other can be saved from madness only by the things that come between them - children, duties, visits, bores, relations - the things that protect married people from each other.

  Edith Wharton

  Children, Thinking, Two

  Edith Wharton (1994). “Short Stories”, p.81, Courier Corporation

• 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.

  Edith Wharton

  Girl, Adventure, Men

  Edith Wharton (2016). “The Age of Innocence: American Literature”, p.144, VM eBooks

• Their long years together had shown him that it did not so much matter if marriage was a dull duty, as long as it kept the dignity of duty: lapsing from that, it became a mere battle of ugly appetites.

  Edith Wharton

  Years, Long, Battle

  Edith Wharton (2013). “House of Mirth and the Age of Innocence”, p.538, Simon and Schuster

• The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.

  Edith Wharton

  Duty, Worst

  The Age of Innocence ch. 34 (1920)

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