Advantage Quote by Jane Austen

And suddenly she knew exactly why Catherine had fallen in love with him. It wasn't that he was unusually attractive, or ambitious, or even…

— Nicholas Sparks

“Catherine’s motto could well have been that genius is a long patience. With the successive reigns of her sons came her chance to show…

— Jane Dunn

“[H]is first purpose was to explain himself, and before they reached Mr. Allen's grounds he had done it so well that Catherine did not…

— Jane Austen

“Sentiment would undo her - each of its ties were a tether that would hold her from her purpose. Men, perhaps, might nourish both…

— Rachel Kadish

She knew that it would not be easy to submit to his miserliness, or the foolishness of his premature appearance of age, or his…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Yet I was a fool to fancy for a moment that she valued Edgar Linton's attachment more than mine -- If he love with…

— Emily Bronte

“For Catherine, the lesson was that more than intelligence and goodwill were needed to break down the traditions, prejudices, and ignorance of both the…

— Robert K. Massie

Catherine the Great, like others of her kind, did not succeed in imparting greatness to her descendants.

— Katharine Anthony

Her companion's discourse now sunk from its hitherto animated pitch, to nothing more than a short, decisive sentence of praise or condemnation on the…

— Jane Austen

“Only Catherine has the capacity to change and mature, although here...our heroine pays a dear price for this change. And she does take a…

— Azar Nafisi

No woman has ever existed who did not know perfectly well in her heart what to expect from the superiority or inferiority of a…

— Honore de Balzac

“Catherine was clever, but even a clever woman misses some of the strange corridors in a man.”

— John Steinbeck