Respect Quote by Eloisa James

“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

“If her mind has a glittery radiance, mine is dark and loamy, preternaturally attuned to sorrow.”

— Leah Hager Cohen

“She was like that, excited and delighted by little things, crossing her fingers before any remotely unpredictable event, like tasting a new flavor of…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“The said Eliza, John, and Georgiana were now clustered round their mama in the drawing-room: she lay reclined on a sofa by the fireside,…

— Charlotte Brontë

“My mother always pouted that it was actually her paintings and not her charm, her beauty or her sass that made him fall in…

— Tammara Webber

“...she said that life was too precious to cast away; that even the foulest and meanest expression of life was precious, full of grandeur…

— Christi Phillips

“The glass served up her likeness without sympathy, showing every line and shadow.”

— Sarah Hilary

“You have broken the ice, though you have not even scratched its glossy surface: you have placed your hand upon the croup of the…

— Honoré de Balzac

“For she is a fair maiden, fairest lady of a house of queens. And yet I know not how I should speak of her.…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“She pitied and despised them from the bottom of her heart, as she stood on the soft carpet, looking at the old engraving of…

— Virginia Woolf

“Ah, but it wasn’t just her lovely face that haunted him. Nor the soft, lush body he was increasingly desperate to see liberated from…

— Tessa Dare

“Slim cunning hands at rest, and cozening eyes, Under this stone one loved too wildly lies; How false she was, no granite could declare;…

— Walter de la Mare