Chic Quote by Anatole Broyard Download Open image “Chic is a convent for unloved women.” — Anatole Broyard ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Chic Unloved
The best convent for a woman is the seclusion of her own home. There she may find her vocation and fight her battles, and… — Elizabeth Prentiss Copy Share Image
“Jessica. For god's sake," he said. "Allow me to do at least one common courtesy for you. In spite ow what 'women's lib' teaches… — Beth Fantaskey Copy Share Image
“...chivalry was just another nefarious masculine scheme to keep women in their place.” — Eve Babitz Copy Share Image
The Senator from South Carolina has read many books of chivalry, and believes himself a chivalrous knight, with sentiments of honor and courage. Of… — Charles Sumner Copy Share Image
A woman must be truly refined to incite chivalry in the heart of a man. — Suzanne Curchod Copy Share Image
“Indeed, a convent was a kind of early think tank for women, since it was the preferred choice of intellectuals wanting to escape marriage.” — Magnus Flyte Copy Share Image
Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The more I like a book, the more reluctant I am to turn the page. Lovers, even book lovers, tend to cling. No one-night… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read at least three times. — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
“The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like and ancestral portrait.” — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
A whole generation of writers dined out on the dialectic between original cultures and their culture by "progress. — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
“When we were in bed, the only part of me she touched was my penis, because it was the most detached.” — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait. — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
Travel is like adultery: one is always tempted to be unfaithful to one's own country. To have imagination is inevitably to be dissatisfied with… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
The tension between 'yes' and no', between 'I can' and 'I cannot,' makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
To choose a writer for a friend is like palling around with your cardiologist, who might be musing as you talk to him that… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
I think dressing up or down should be a creative experience. Exciting. Fun. For me the key to personal style lies in accessories. I… — Iris Apfel Copy Share Image
I had two sisters, and we would love to get dressed up and pretend that we were chic, sophisticated ladies. And I think that… — Suzanne Farrell Copy Share Image
The true test of a man's style is the haircut. There are some men who look good no matter how their hair is styled,… — Carine Roitfeld Copy Share Image
I kind of had an idea that New York would be like Fashion Week, where everyone always looks incredibly chic and cool, and I… — Carey Mulligan Copy Share Image
Actually, recording the Suite Chic album was so much fun and while working on this new album, people that I've worked with from Suite… — Namie Amuro Copy Share Image
I like to dress pretty basic during the day, but with a sophisticated bohemian spin, and sometimes a little rock chic. At night I… — Alessandra Ambrosio Copy Share Image
Making loans and fighting poverty are normally two of the least glamorous pursuits around, but put the two together and you have an economic… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
'Style Strategy' is about shopping smart, staying chic and making it all last. It's about showing women how to shop for value without compromising… — Nina Garcia Copy Share Image
