Cheating Quote by Gwenn Wright

“There would always be an expletive in a New York sentence. Even from a judge. Soderberg was not fond of bad language, but he…

— Colum McCann

Eva Stachniak has given readers a thrilling glimpse into the scandals and secrets at the heart of the Russian Imperial court. With deft prose…

— Deanna Raybourn

“Kenneth was a sitting duck. In fewer than three years he would kneel alone in this very room, on the exact spot where he…

— Jincy Willett

“Every Hungarian wishes to die an elegant gentleman”

— Igor Janke

“He was a man of between sixty and seventy. From a little distance he had the bland aspect of a philanthropist. His slightly bald…

— Agatha Christie

“The funny thing was that he wasn't altogether a fool in other ways. Deep down in him there was a kind of stratum of…

— P.G. Wodehouse

“In a city by the sea that was certainly never called anything so bourgeois as St. Petersburg, there stood a long, thin house on…

— Catherynne M. Valente

“A scandal had traditionally been an easy way to dispose of an inconvenient woman.”

— Geraldine Brooks

“Kerensky, yes, Kerensky – I think we have to say one of the great wets of history.”

— Isaiah Berlin

“At my age, only naivete still manages to scandalize me sometimes.”

— Amin Maalouf

“Pompous fools drive me up the wall. Ordinary fools are alright; you can talk to them and try to help them out. But pompous…

— Richard P. Feynman

“The woman was finally done, and Beatrix reached for a magazine. There were always German magazines lying around here, Vogue was extremely rare; who…

— Ingeborg Bachmann