Certain Quote by Alain de Botton

“And much addicted to speaking the truth. In her younger years she was a good deal of a romp, and, though it is an…

— Henry James

“Disdaining the heroic outfit, excitable in her methods, garrulous, episodical, shrill, she misled her lover much as she misled her aunt. He mistook her…

— E.M. Forster

“She was very fond of thinking and getting at the truth of things, but was so far from being pedantic, so full of youthful…

— Feodor Dostoevsky

She was a curious woman, whose dresses always looked as if they had been designed in a rage and put on in a tempest.…

— Oscar Wilde

She took a sort of abject pride in her mecilessness toward herself.

— David Foster Wallace

“I can hardly regard her in the light of a rational creature, so obstinately has she persisted in forming a fabulous notion of my…

— Emily Brontë

“Her expression was oafish, but it was on the whole this quality that gave her face a certain retentive efficacy. She had the look…

— Anthony Powell

“From what you know of her, you will not be surprised that she threw some exaggeration and wilfulness, some pride and impetuosity, even into…

— George Eliot

“She herself, she said, had visited the very depths of disillusionment in the male character by being honest in precisely this way: men who…

— Rachel Cusk

“Her attitude was that of some one who wishes to be concealed as much as possible from observation […] her whole body and voice…

— Virginia Woolf

“She might be a little introverted, livelier of movement than of conversation, neither bashful nor forward, with a soul that seemed submerged, but in…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Certainly the determining acts of her life were not ideally beautiful. They were the mixed result of young and novel impulse struggling amidst the…

— George Eliot