"Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything."
-Anita Brookner
womenView Quote
"The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.“
-Anita Brookner
posted in romantic
Other Quotes
Discover more inspiring quotes from our collection
"Existentialism is about being a saint without God being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society."
-Anita Brookner
societyView Quote
"Existentialism is about being a saint without God being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society."
-Anita Brookner
religionView Quote
"Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of."
-Anita Brookner
futureView Quote
"Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy."
-Anita Brookner
friendshipView Quote
"Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has."
-Anita Brookner
freedomView Quote
Same Category
More quotes in this category
"I want to do all kinds of things. I want to do some comedy. I'd love to do a romantic comedy, and I'd love to do some period pieces with classical text. I'd love somebody to cast me as Macbeth, but for a film. I just want to be all over the place."
-Kevin Alejandro
romanticView Quote
"The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But it's a joke, a blot on American history."
-Frank Waters
romanticView Quote
"So I'm still in my romantic stage with London, I love it as a place."
-Christian Cooke
romanticView Quote
"Consider what a romantic expedition you are on take notes."
-Anne Boyd
romanticView Quote
"In our romantic groves I adored her like a divinity."
-Anne Boyd
romanticView Quote
"A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him."
-Arthur Symons
romanticView Quote