Adversaries Quote by William Goldman

“The variations of the Duchess's judgment spared no one, except her husband. He alone had never been in love with her, in him she…

— Marcel Proust

“She quickly realized she had an affinity for the older books and their muted scents of past dinners and foreign countries, the tea and…

— Erica Bauermeister

“As long as your father's alive, you aren't yet the duchess. All that deference isn't truly warranted, is it?" In an oppressive tone, Lady…

— Christina Dodd

“In Prabaker’s way of courtship, a young man didn’t bring flowers or chocolates to the woman he loved: he brought her stories from the…

— Gregory David Roberts

“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

I find it hard to believe that a lady like...’ Pertellis hesitated, and coughed. ‘There is something elevated in the female spirit that will…

— Frances Hardinge

Interestingly, the actress who, in her own persona, may be gentle, shy, and socially awkward, someone whose hand trembles when pouring a cup of…

— Wallace Shawn

“Sara, who snatched her lessons at all sorts of untimely hours from tattered and discarded books, and who had a hungry craving for everything…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“She had thought of literature all these years (her seclusion, her rank, her sex must be her excuse) as something wild as the wind,…

— Virginia Woolf

“She knew she was a purveyor of costume, of disguise, a fabricator of persona, one who touched only the protective surface, never the skin,…

— Jane Urquhart

“At the heart of the crowd walked a girl with merry eyes, a floating violet in a sea of cut-velvet and silk hose, cloth-of-silver…

— Katherine Arden

“It is now expedient to give some description of Mrs. Allen, that the reader may be able to judge in what manner her actions…

— Jane Austen