Bravery Quote by Angela Thirkell

Madame Bovary is timeless. It is not just about the female condition in France in the 1840s. It's not a simple cautionary tale. Emma…

— Sophie Barthes

“I know more about Emily Bronte than anyone I know. I know enough about her family to have been a part. I’ve walked with…

— Chila Woychik

“She was painfully shy, but physically she was brave to a surprising degree. She loved few persons, but those few with a passion of…

— Eva Hope

“She was a kinswoman of the queen, a member of the most powerful family in England. A Boleyn.”

— V.E. Lynne

“My Lady Baroness, who weighed three hundred and fifty pounds, consequently was a person of no small consideration; and then she did the honors…

— Voltaire

“The universal experience of ages, showing that children do grow imperceptibly from the cradle to manhood, did not exist for the countess. Her son's…

— Leo Tolstoy

“She is the British warm that protects his stooping shoulders, and the wintering sparrow he holds inside his hands. She is his deepest innocence…

— Thomas Pynchon

“Madame Montoni's sufferings, at length, rose above her pride, and, when Emily had before entered the room, she would have told them all, had…

— Eliza Parsons

“Meanwhile, the travellers pursued their journey; Emily making frequent efforts to appear cheerful, and too often relapsing into silence and dejection. Madame Cheron, attributing…

— Eliza Parsons

“She was, in fact, one of those people of exalted principles; one of those opinionated puritans, of which England produces so many; one of…

— Guy de Maupassant

“My brothers are idiots. Anyone can see that under the scars and the attitude, Isabeau is more fragile than she looks. And as a…

— Alyxandra Harvey

“Madame Bovary, c'est moi. Emma Bovary. She was the first. The first to thrash around in the space between a packaged wonder and reality,…

— Antonia Quirke