Edith Wharton Quotes About Wife

Quotes about: Wife

• ..but it seemed to him that the tie between husband and wife, if breakable in prosperity, should be indissoluble in misfortune.

  Edith Wharton

  Husband, Ties, Wife

  Edith Wharton (2016). “The Age of Innocence: American Literature”, p.192, VM eBooks

• As he paid the hansom and followed his wife's long train into the house he took refuge in the comforting platitude that the first six months were always the most difficult in marriage. 'After that I suppose we shall have pretty nearly finished rubbing off each other’s angles,' he reflected; but the worst of it was that May's pressure was already bearing on the very angles whose sharpness he most wanted to keep

  Edith Wharton

  Wife, Long, House

  Edith Wharton (2006). “The Age of Innocence”, p.148, OUP Oxford

• There was no use in trying to emancipate a wife who had not the dimmest notion that she was not free.

  Edith Wharton

  Wife, Trying, Use

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2085, Delphi Classics

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