Here are a few of our favorite movie quotes from The Age of Innocence.
Countess Ellen Olenska (
Michelle Pfeiffer
):
"Shall I come to you once and then go home."
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Newland Archer (
Daniel Day-Lewis
):
"Nothing's done that can't be undone."
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Narrator (
Joanne Woodward
):
"And the key to his release had been returned to him the day before. By mail. Unopened."
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Newland Archer (
Daniel Day-Lewis
):
"Tell me, do you really like to be alone."
Countess Ellen Olenska (
Michelle Pfeiffer
):
"As long as my friends keep me from being lonely."
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Narrator (
Joanne Woodward
):
"He was the prisoner in the center of an armed camp."
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Newland Archer (
Daniel Day-Lewis
):
"Just say I'm old fashioned. That should be enough."
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Newland Archer (
Daniel Day-Lewis
):
"Yes but it is not fashionable."
Countess Ellen Olenska (
Michelle Pfeiffer
):
"Fashionable. Is fashion such a serious consideration."
Newland Archer (
Daniel Day-Lewis
):
"Among people who have nothing more serious to consider."
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Countess Ellen Olenska (
Michelle Pfeiffer
):
"You've never been beyond that. I have. I know what it looks like. It's no place for us."
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Countess Ellen Olenska (
Michelle Pfeiffer
):
"It seems stupid to discover America only to make it a copy of another country. Do you think Christopher Columbus would have taken all that trouble just to go to the opera with Larry Lefferts?"
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May Welland Archer (
Winona Ryder
):
"I'm afraid you can't, dear. Not unless you take me with you."
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Narrator (
Joanne Woodward
):
"This was a world balanced so precariously that its harmony could be shared by a whisper."
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Countess Ellen Olenska (
Michelle Pfeiffer
):
"Is New York such a labyrinth? I thought it was all straight up and down like Fifth Avenue. All the cross streets numbered. And big honest labels on everything."
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Countess Ellen Olenska (
Michelle Pfeiffer
):
"I can't be your wife, Newland. Is it your idea I should live with you as your mistress?"
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Narrator (
Joanne Woodward
):
"It was widely known in New York but never acknowledged that Americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than they want to get to it."
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Newland Archer (
Daniel Day-Lewis
):
"Our legislation favors divorce but our social customs don't."
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