Famous Quotes / Anita Brookner
21 Quotations by Anita Brookner
- 1. A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people t ...
- 2. A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise ...
- 3. A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.
- 4. Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.
- 5. All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being goo ...
- 6. Always let them think of you as singing and dancing.
- 7. Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and ...
- 8. Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take ...
- 9. Great writers are the saints for the godless.
- 10. It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never ...
- 11. Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biograp ...
- 12. No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.
- 13. Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most pe ...
- 14. Romanticism is not just a mode; it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just ...
- 15. She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.
- 16. The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may ...
- 17. The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never ...
- 18. Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.
- 19. What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere -- it is an art form in itself.
- 20. Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence -- a lot passes you by -- simply because your a ...