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
Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything. – Anita Brookner
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule. – 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
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