A Foolish Consistency Full Quotes

#1. If a woman is a work of art, the frame is just as important as the canvas.

Chloe Thurlow

#2. I've always wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific.

Lily Tomlin

#3. Marlee was fourteen. A dangerous age, although, let's face it, Jackson thought, every age was a dangerous age for a woman.

Kate Atkinson

#4. As for writing about temptation, there's no drama without temptation, and no novel without drama.

Tom Perrotta

#5. This conference is like a tour through the various levels of Hell, he thought. The only things missing are a respectable Virgil and hordes of people screaming.

Sylvain Reynard

#6. I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life.

Gore Vidal

#7. People who have nothing to do always lack time. Perish all those who do not think as we do. Reason is a feeble weapon in contending with a woman. Words that sounded kindly, but with a cold, unloving heart.

Georg Ebers

#8. When I love a novel I've read, I want to reread it - in part, to see how it was constructed.

John Irving

#9. Nothing got more serious than allowing a tortoise to crawl across your kitchen floor.

J. Lynn

#10. I'm interested in the sheer fascination of beauty - beauty is fascinating.

Chantal Joffe