Desires Quote by Booth Tarkington

The only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she desires.

— Booth Tarkington

“He had carefully avoided her out of the natural cowardice that characterizes the stronger sex.”

— Gustave Flaubert

“She had to learn not to be afraid of a man, the way, in your childhood, you learned not to be afraid of an…

— Lorrie Moore

“The stupidity with which he was favoured by nature must guard his courtship from any charm that could make a woman wish for its…

— Jane Austen

“Indeed, for the last three years, he had carefully avoided her, as a result of the natural cowardice so characteristic of the stronger sex...”

— Gustave Flaubert

Vulnerability, like he had the power to hurt her or pleasure her in a way no other man could. For the first time, he…

— Maya Banks

“He managed to make his request with the minimum of time given to speculating what she looked like naked, forgiving himself for the instant…

— Elizabeth George

“In his savage, untutored breast new emotions were stirring. He could not fathom them. He wondered why he felt so great an interest in…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

And so she shuddered away from the threat of his enduring love. What did he mean? Had she not the power to daunt him?…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“Through experience, he had learnt to pick up all of the unmistakable signs of vulnerability in a woman, everything that pointed to her being…

— Alice Walsh

“Women, they were tricky business. A man had to step carefully lest he find himself in a pit of despair, longing after the one…

— T.A. Grey

She had always been too wise to tell him all she thought and felt, knowing by some intuition of her own womanhood that no…

— Pearl S. Buck