Romanticism is not just a mode; it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man. – Anita Brookner
In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game. – Anita Brookner
Existentialism is about being a saint without God being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society. – Anita Brookner
Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy. – Anita Brookner
She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes. – Oliver Goldsmith