Quotes by Anita Brookner

Anita Brookner

A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in.

People

Use

Women

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Friendship

Love

Women

A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.

Liars

Lying

Men

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Accountability

Friendship

Love

And without understanding, could each properly love the other?

Understanding

Death is only a small interruption.

Interruptions

Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.

God

Hero

Philosophical

Fiction is the great repository of the moral sense. The wicked get punished.

Fiction

Moral

Wicked

For once a thing is known, it can never be unknown. It can only be forgotten.

Forgotten

Known

Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.

Good Woman

Thinking

Women

Follow The Behaviour University in order to get the greatest quotes from the greatest people of all time so that you can tap into your own greatness.

Accountability

Age

Animal

Art

Attention

Behavior

Belief

Book

Break

Children

Company

Feels

Fiction

Forgotten

Friendship

Fulfilled

God

Good Woman

Grey

Growing Up

Hero

Home

Innocence

Interesting

Interruptions

Irritation

Justice

Known

Knows

Language

Liars

Library

Life

Light

Loneliness

Lonely

Love

Lying

Men

Monday

Moral

Morning

Passion

Past

People

Philosophical

Pity

Problem

Reading

Real

The Future Blueprint

Tool

The Home Therapist: Anti Anxiety

Tool

The Autobiography

Tool

The Behaviour Diary

Tool

The Dating Diary

Tool

The Relationship Therapist

Tool

Quotes by Anita Brookner

Anita Brookner

A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

And without understanding, could each properly love the other?

Death is only a small interruption.

Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.

Fiction is the great repository of the moral sense. The wicked get punished.

For once a thing is known, it can never be unknown. It can only be forgotten.

Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.

Get Social with TBU

Topics by Anita Brookner

Popular Tools

The Future Blueprint

The Home Therapist: Anti Anxiety

The Autobiography

The Behaviour Diary

The Dating Diary

The Relationship Therapist

Menu

Menu