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Quotes from The Wife — Sigrid Undset

1882–1949 Denmark

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6 quotes

The Devil himself must have a hand in it when a man’s wife goes to his brother for confession!

The Wife (1921)

Peace—perhaps the king’s peace would be possible up there someday, but in his lifetime there would be peace only when the Devil attended mass.

The Wife (1921)

Through the great darkness that would come, she saw the gleam of another, gentler sun, and she sensed the fragrance of the herbs in the garden at world’s end.

The Wife (1921)

With this last ring, she felt as if he were marrying her again. Now the she would soon sit beside his lifeless body, he wanted her to know that with this ring he was committing to her the strong and vital force that had lived in this dust and ashes.

The Wife (1921)

Handsome he was not, although he had well-formed features. But his hair had a reddish tinge, and his eyelashes and brows were white; even his eyes were a very pale blue. That people nevertheless found Sir Erling to be good-looking was perhaps due to the fact that everyone knew he was the wealthiest knight in Norway.

The Wife (1921)

“I’ve never seen anything like it—you’ve squandered all your wealth….”
“Well, I was never the kind of man who would go to Hell with a bare backside merely to save my breeches from being burned.”

The Wife (1921)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Sigrid Undset (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.