Vronsky's Quotes

#1. Yashvin, a gambler and a rake, a man not merely without moral principles, but of immoral principles, Yashvin was Vronsky's greatest friend in the regiment.

Leo Tolstoy

#2. It's wrong, what you say, and I beg you, if you're a good man,
to forget what you've said, as I forget it," she said at last.
"Not one word, not one gesture of yours shall I, could I, ever
forget ...

Leo Tolstoy

#3. Bad Boy Entertainment did not shoot anybody. I didn't shoot anybody.

Sean Combs

#4. Time heals all wounds.

Anne Frank

#5. It hardly does much good to have a complex mind without actually being a philosopher.

Saul Bellow

#6. Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves

Victoria Magazine

#7. On one memorable occasion Vronsky played all the parts in an abridged version of Anna Karenina when the rest of the cast were on strike for more blinis.

Jasper Fforde

#8. Vronsky saw nothing and no one. He felt himself as a king, not because she had made an impression on Anna-he did not yet believe that-but because the impression she had made on him gave him happiness and pride.

Leo Tolstoy

#9. And just as the hungry stomach eagerly accepts every object it can get, hoping to find nourishment in it, Vronsky quite unconsciously clutched first at politics, then at new books, and then at pictures.

Leo Tolstoy

#10. He [Vronsky] himself felt that, except that crazy fellow married to Kitty Shcherbatsky, who, quite irrelevantly had with rabid virulence told him a lot of pointless nonsense, every nobleman whose acquaintance he had made had become his partisan.

Leo Tolstoy

#11. I ask only one thing: I ask the right to hope and suffer as I do now; but if even that is impossible, command me to disappear and I will do it.
-Vronsky

Leo Tolstoy

#12. Now that Vronsky had deceived her, she was prepared to love Levin and to hate Vronsky.

Leo Tolstoy

#13. Yes, I suppose so, answered Anna, as though wondering at the boldness of his question; but the irrepressible, quivering brilliance of her eyes and her smile set him on fire as she said it.

Leo Tolstoy

#14. Her wild heart was rare, she saw blessings were most saw burdens & if one thing was certain; her smile was like a flower in the sunshine

Nikki Rowe

#15. Sight-seeing, aside from the fact that everything had been seen already, could not have for him
and intelligent Russian
the inexplicable importance attached to it by the English.

Leo Tolstoy

#16. One of the problems with being famous is people mob you wherever you go. Many of them ask very irritating questions. If I were not the shortest woman in the world, I would not have become famous.

Jyoti Amge

#17. Medieval Italian life had recently become so fascinating for Vronsky that he even began wearing his hat and a wrap thrown over his shoulder in a medieval fashion, which was very becoming to him.

Leo Tolstoy

#18. Count Vronsky: I love you!
Anna Karenina: Why?
Count Vronsky: You can't ask Why about love!

Leo Tolstoy

#19. [A happy ending is] a distribution at the last of prizes, pensions, husbands, wives babies, millions, appended paragraphs, and cheerful remarks.

Henry James

#20. A democrat must be utterly selfless. He must think and dream not in terms of self or of party, but only of democracy.

Mahatma Gandhi

#21. For love? What antediluvian notions you have! Can one talk of love in these days?" said the ambassador's wife.
"What's to be done? It's a foolish old fashion that's kept up still," said Vronsky.

Leo Tolstoy

#22. I'm afraid I'm becoming ridiculous.

Leo Tolstoy

#23. There is a certain kind of respect for authenticity today that there wasn't back in the days when they did 'Cleopatra,' where everything looked like a giant motel. People want to have it be authentic in the look, and authentic in the way people behave.

John Milius

#24. There is a fine line between freedom and slavery.

Darynda Jones

#25. I was so taken by HIM, but he was not Count Vronsky or Rhett Buttler. But in my little world he was as dashing and handsome. I knew it was a doomed affair. I knew it instinctively.

Cecilia Scott

#26. That's my one desire, to be caught," answered Vronsky, with his serene,
good-humored smile. "If I complain of anything it's only that I'm not caught
enough, to tell the truth. I begin to lose hope.

Leo Tolstoy

#27. I ask one thing: I ask the right to hope and suffer as I do now.
Vronsky

Leo Tolstoy

#28. This child, with his naive outlook on life was the compass which showed them the degree of their departure from what they knew but did not want to know.

Leo Tolstoy

#29. A convoluted noir infused extravaganza clogged with humans but also a bizarre cluster of unique creatures and provocative human chimeras customized via genetic manipulation and body augmentation, a reverie of alluring cultural ferment and cyberdelic imagery making a grand display

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