Cockiness Quote by Willa Cather

“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 always been beautiful in his eyes, and admirable, too. He had worshipped her, in some ways, for her courage in adversity, for…

— Michael Moorcock

“The intensity of her religious disposition, the coercion it exercised over her life, was but one aspect of a nature altogether ardent, theoretic, and…

— George Eliot

“Exalted by a sentiment of which she was proud, and that overcame all her arrogance, she was reluctant to let a moment of her…

— Stendhal

“If the one thing was right, everything elses must surely be right; the thing was axiomatic. It was true that happiness had often to…

— Dorothy Sayers

“She had seen them in turmoil all round her--love, hatred, vengeance, treachery--she herself practically the pivot around which they raged. Out of the deadly…

— Baroness Orczy

“And her deepest enjoyment was to feel the continuity between the movements of her own soul and the agitations of the world.”

— Henry James

“It was a compound of self-reliance, hard knocks, heart hunger, unceasing work, and generosity. There was no form of suffering with which the girl…

— Gene Stratton Porter

“You could see that her tremendous inside life, its solitary fears and fires, was out of accord with her humble view of herself; to…

— Elizabeth Bowen

“I saw these passionate people reel about and drift haphazardly as if driven by a storm, the man filled with desire today, satiated on…

— Hermann Hesse

“This assumption that she need look for no more devotion now that her beauty had passed proceeded from the fact that she had never…

— Thornton Wilder

“The battle between her body and mind was raging, and she was adrift in a sea of passion and desire without a life preserver.…

— Avery Gale