Anita Brookner Thinking Quotations

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

You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a public Jew; the dead can't answer slurs, but I'm here. I would love to think that Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, but he doesn't.

Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.

I think you always feel braver in another language.

Always let them think of you as singing and dancing.