Advantage Quote by Marcel Proust

“large part of her simplicity consisted in determining not to want what she could not have with ease. So”

— James Baldwin

“It was characteristic of her that she remembered her failures as keenly as her triumphs, and that the passionate desire to obliterate, to "get…

— Edith Wharton

“For most of her life she just expected things would work out, that people would be kind. Now she recognized her good fortune for…

— Stewart O'Nan

“What she craved and really felt herself entitled to was a situation in which the noblest attitude should also be the easiest.”

— Edith Wharton

“None of it was fair and all to her advantage, the least she could do was be content.”

— Kathleen Leonard

“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

“advantage, spent the chief of her time with her two elder sisters. In society so superior to what she had generally known, her improvement…

— Jane Austen

“She had received ideas which disposed her to be courteous and kind to all, and to pity every one, as being less happy than…

— Jane Austen

“This was loyalty of a sort which was rare in an age of self-indulgence. It was an old-fashioned virtue of the type which her…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“She preferred to be at the receiving end of envy than pity.”

— Julian Fellowes

“She found it an interesting exercise to explore a place with a person she did not know well, following not only her own impulses…

— Lydia Davis

“She was too dependent on what other people thought of her, and that was her downfall. She cared too much. She was only what…

— Steph Bowe