Godbersen Quotes: top 64 famous quotes about Godbersen

Godbersen Quotes & Sayings

Happy to read and share the best inspirational Godbersen quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.

Gossip is just a tool to distract people who have nothing better to do from feeling jealous of those few of us still remaining with noble hearts. — Anna Godbersen

Diana wore a men's bowler with the intials H. W. S. sewn into the lining and an old French army coat. — Anna Godbersen

Marriage is a mystery that one would be wise not to solve too hastily.
Marve De Jong, Love And Other Follies Of The Great Families Of Old New York — Anna Godbersen

Among her other talents were forgetting what she did not like and ignoring what she preferred not to see. — Anna Godbersen

Instead, he sat in the parlor of his family's Fifth Avenue mansion, growing older by the minute just like everybody else. — Anna Godbersen

We have glimpsed in it the future of high society: wealth without class. — Anna Godbersen

Heart-stopping envy is the sincerest form of flattery. — Anna Godbersen

As she always did on any really important day, Penelope Hayes wore red. — Anna Godbersen

Elizabeth had followed her heart, and no one ever regrets that. — Anna Godbersen

Elizabeth who was only partially visible to her stared out the window very much awake as though she were contemplating the end of man. — Anna Godbersen

Diana knew it wouldn't be right, but then she told herself that things only looked wrong when there was someone to see you. — Anna Godbersen

Henry's worldly goal at the moment was drinking enough beer to be happy and forgetful. — Anna Godbersen

Henry turned his hat in his hands but went on looking at Diana in a way that made her want to crawl into his arms and stay there forever. — Anna Godbersen

They will stop calling brides beautiful after today - you have simply set the standard too high,' he said. — Anna Godbersen

She was trying to sound tough and impatient, but she knew that vulnerable desire to be wooed was still brimming in her tone. — Anna Godbersen

Recurrent memories of Henry Schoonmaker were the most exciting thing to happen in her conscious mind these days. — Anna Godbersen

It's the craziest thing, but I can't stop thinking about you. — Anna Godbersen

So this is how life was, she thought with a faint smile: It wore you down until you emerged at its wildest, most unexpected ends. — Anna Godbersen

Life was a short window and there was no sense in doing the wrong thing over and over even if it was so difficult to stop. — Anna Godbersen

Her life, she realized, had all the charm of a steel trap. — Anna Godbersen

Henry wondered not for the first time if her blood ran red or black. — Anna Godbersen

...she considered herself unconventional... — Anna Godbersen

For the lesson was clear-one did not poke around at night, not unless one wanted to see ghosts. — Anna Godbersen

But there was nothing like a little chest-beating to remind a man where his true feelings lay. — Anna Godbersen

That was the way love was, she guessed-it left you always unsteady on your feet. — Anna Godbersen

You don't need to marry a man with millions. You only need to be your exquisite self. — Anna Godbersen

But in that moment she realized how false most smiles were and what a tremendous waste of time. — Anna Godbersen

They were a society whose chief vocations were to entertain and be entertained ... — Anna Godbersen

I've always believed in savoring the moments. In the end, they are the only things we'll have. — Anna Godbersen

I tell you Schoonmaker she doesn't know what she has. That's the heart of it. She's like some wild creature who hasn't a clue the worth of its coat. — Anna Godbersen

A smiling friend was a true friend. — Anna Godbersen

She found herself longing for home-not just for the hotel but for New York and all the real novels that she could lose herself in there. — Anna Godbersen

It had been too much for Edith to take and she had gone to her room so that her nieces wouldn't see her cry anymore. — Anna Godbersen

She should have know that villains often come with pretty faces. — Anna Godbersen

I can't imagine what my life was before. I can't imagine ever being without you for very long again. — Anna Godbersen

She felt so much aware of her own beauty it seemed inconceivable that everybody else wouldn't notice the difference too. — Anna Godbersen

Living too much in one's head can be dangerous. — Anna Godbersen

Love is all right, as things go, but lovers can be a terrible waste of a girl's time. — Anna Godbersen

In New York there is always something to look at, but it is all infinitely more interesting through a window in the backseat of a limousine. — Anna Godbersen

She had rarely been near Henry since then, and the sight of him now was like a concentrated dose. — Anna Godbersen

Always stay sharp on railways and cruise ships for transit has a way of making everything clear. — Anna Godbersen

She was realizing for the first time in her life what agony it was to experience such unquiet beneath an impeccable veneer. — Anna Godbersen

When girls use the brightness of their eyes or the softness of their skin, they have an uncommon advantage in getting what they want. — Anna Godbersen

It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer. — Anna Godbersen

I am a good leader; I know how to explain men to themselves. — Anna Godbersen

A young lady's most natural ally is her sister although sometimes our own relatives are as inscrutable to us as an antipodean. — Anna Godbersen

What did it matter anyway that she was so much lovelier than the other girls when Henry was so blind. — Anna Godbersen

Oh yes, well, I find myself unconventional everywhere. — Anna Godbersen

All really interesting girls invent themselves. — Anna Godbersen

She had believed him to be hers, time and again, but still she could not stay the feeling that he might at any moment slip through her fingers. — Anna Godbersen

She had had no idea what it would do to her seeing him in a suit. — Anna Godbersen

It was disgraceful but also romantic enough to make Lina's heart turn. — Anna Godbersen

Sometimes ends are in fact beginnings; beginnings ends. — Anna Godbersen

He was just like summer, and she loved summer. If she had any wish, it would be to live a lifetime of summers. — Anna Godbersen

There was no pleasure like being envied on a mass scale. — Anna Godbersen

Even when a girl is married she still never completely leaves her mother and father's home. — Anna Godbersen

Already she could feel the stunning weight of a lifetime of regret for letting him go, and she knew that it was enought to bury her alive. — Anna Godbersen

To look in the face of hard things and keep moving forward - that's what one has to do. — Anna Godbersen

The first stab of love is like a sunset, a blaze of color
oranges, pearly pinks, vibrant purples ... — Anna Godbersen

That is what I want to tell you about: the girls with their short skirts and bright eyes and big-city dreams.
The girls of 1929. — Anna Godbersen

She was full of some strange energy that morning. Her every movement had purpose and life and she seemed to find satisfaction in every little thing. — Anna Godbersen

The headiest loves were the loves that couldn't be. — Anna Godbersen

It was like the color of his eyes, she supposed - not quite one shade or another, and utterly unlike anyone else's. — Anna Godbersen

A man is made in the rough-and-tumble of the world a lady emerges from the flossy back rooms of her own imagination. — Anna Godbersen