Failure Quote by George Eliot

“Dorothea, with all her eagerness to know the truths of life, retained very childlike ideas about marriage. She felt sure that she would have…

— George Eliot

“He was a man who seemed careless of his appearance, very different from the gentlemen with whom she had consorted until a few months…

— Mary Balogh

“He had her alone in the garden. Her moist lips. The moonlight in her eyes. A lesser man would be merely tempted. A greater…

— Diana Holquist

“It was a curious game. This curiousness was evidenced, for example, in the fact that the young man, even though he himself was playing…

— Milan Kundera

“He had never thought the question over clearly, but vaguely imagined that his wife had long suspected him of being unfaithful to her and…

— Leo Tolstoy

“The very falsehood that stained her, was a proof how blindly she loved another--this dark, slight, elegant, handsome man--while he himself was rough, and…

— Elizabeth Gaskellbeth Gaskell

“He’d had, perhaps, too much wine. Enough to weaken a certain resolve, the one having to do with recognizing his own maturity, that host…

— Steven Erikson

“Her profession did not fascinate him in the least, and he had no boyhood memories of tenderness or embarrassment to soften him toward the…

— Eleanor Catton

“He could not deny that the beauty, the youth, the gracefulness, of the countess had made some impression on him: but his nature was…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Andrew had been staring, mesmerized as Vivien recounted the details of Lysandra’s request, but now he shook off his interest. “And again, what does…

— Jess Michaels

“She stood by the bed and stroked her father's hand, knowing how desperately afraid he must feel at this moment. He'd always prided himself…

— Hillary Jordan

“The variations of the Duchess's judgment spared no one, except her husband. He alone had never been in love with her, in him she…

— Marcel Proust