Arrogance Quote by Jane Austen

“She found herself suddenly surrounded by a host of assumptions. It was assumed that she trembled for joy in his presence, languished in his…

— Vita Sackville-West

“Next she lost her belief in the sincerity of those about her. She secretly refused to believe that anyone (herself excepted) loved anyone. All…

— Thornton Wilder

“Because she had always been happy, she wanted everyone about her to be happy or, at least, pleased with themselves. To this end, she…

— Margaret Mitchell

“She had in truth no abstract propensity to malice: she did not dislike Lily because the latter was brilliant and predominant, but because she…

— Edith Wharton

“Her beauty had not blinded him to her shortcomings, but perhaps it had to her virtues”

— Robert Grede

“She had learned that when people were bent on doing something they believed was a good deed, it was usually impossible to dissuade them.”

— Celeste Ng

“Never in her life had she seen such literary men. They were incredibly vain, but made no secret of it, as though they were…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Early in life she had discovered the important truth that nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion; and by a series of reckless…

— Oscar Wilde

She was struck by the simple truth that sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right…

— Nicholas Sparks

“She would not have cared to confess how infinitely she preferred the exactitude, the star-like impersonality, of figures to the confusion, agitation, and vagueness…

— Virginia Woolf

“Disdaining the heroic outfit, excitable in her methods, garrulous, episodical, shrill, she misled her lover much as she misled her aunt. He mistook her…

— E.M. Forster

“She had that rare virtue of never existing completely except for that opportune moment”

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez