Quotes About Newland Archer

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

Edith Wharton

#2. But there was about her the mysterious authority of beauty, a sureness in the carriage of the head, the movement of the eyes, which, without being in the least theatrical, struck him as highly trained and full of a conscious power. (Newland Archer of Countess Olenska)

Edith Wharton

#3. In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.

Graham Greene

#4. Every day, thousands of confessions are kept from their would-be confessors, none of these people knowing that their never-admitted secrets all boil down to the same three words: I am afraid.

Maggie Stiefvater

#5. He might have been a thief and a liar and a cheat, but he was a good person.

Judy Blundell

#6. Knights are cavalry, bishops are archers, rooks are cannons and queens are wizards.

Jacob Aagaard

#7. The nerd flavor of masculinity has overwhelmed the macho kind in real-life power dynamics, and therefore in popular culture.

Jaron Lanier

#8. A five-year-old Chinese girl knows more about football than I do.

Frank Langella

#9. Those who suffer from historical amnesia, the belief that we are unique in history and have nothing to learn from the past, remain children. They live in an illusion.

Chris Hedges

#10. I'm tired of their plastic pony show.

Randolph Randy Camp