Quotes by Brookner, Anita

All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of >>

Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, s >>

Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being o >>

Quotations about Lovers

When Death to either shall come -- I pray it be first to me. >>

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, swee >>

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guar >>

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita