Anna Karenina Quotes
17 quotes by 16 authors
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Anna Karenina is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. Its gossip, rubbish - on…
— Hanif Kureishi
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Throughout my reading life, I've enjoyed many memorable meals-if only fictionally. The oysters at dinner near the beginning of Anna Karenina, the dinner Nana throws…
— Alexander Chee
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Now, 75 years later in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with…
— Harper Lee
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If you think of even Tolstoy or a book like 'Anna Karenina,' you go from character to character, and each section is from the third…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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Every story has already been told. Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbird and A Wrinkle…
— Anna Quindlen
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When I was growing up, 'Anna Karenina' was one of my favourite books.
— Paullina Simons
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I think predictability is built into any good novel in some way - you begin reading Anna Karenina and you know pretty much what's going…
— Scarlett Thomas
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I endured quite a few injuries when I was younger and had my first surgery on my foot when I was 15. But I love…
— Alicia Vikander
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The Hunger Games' isn't for everybody. But neither is 'Anna Karenina.
— Mary Schmich
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The ideal woman which is in every man's mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand. The…
— William Faulkner
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In a vacuum all photons travel at the same speed. They slow down when travelling through air or water or glass. Photons of different energies…
— Jeanette Winterson
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One of the world's most tiresome questions is what object one would bring to a desert island,because people always answer "a deck of cards" or…
— Daniel Handler
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Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand." - Anna Karenina {Anna…
— Leo Tolstoy
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Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it." - Vronksy {Anna Karenina}
— Leo Tolstoy
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Maybe it’s not, in the end, the virtues of others that so wrenches our hearts as it is the sense of almost unbearably poignant recognition…
— Michael Cunningham
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It’s Tolstoy, by the way,†I say as I open the door. He turns around. “What?†Shut up, I tell myself. Shut up. “The writer…
— Melina Marchetta
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In fiction, imaginary people become realer to us than any named celebrity glimpsed in a series of rumored events, whose causes and subtler ramifications must…
— John Updike
Who Wrote These Anna Karenina Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 17 Anna Karenina Quotes as follows: