Anna Karenina Quotes

““I'm beginning to be weary of fruitlessly championing the truth.””

““Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.””

“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

“He had said what her soul longed to hear, though she feared it with her reason.”

“"This whole world of ours is only a speck of mildew sprung up on a tiny planet."”

“We live without making anything, as though we were ancient vestals set to keep in a fire.”

“Wikipedia: Anna Karenina”

““No, I can't argue with them,” he thought; “they wear impenetrable armor, while I'm naked.””

““You are one of those delightful women in whose company it's sweet to be silent as well as to talk.””

“There had come back into his face the stern, reproachful expression of the dying man's envy of the living.”

““He's one of those people who are very pleasant if one accepts them for what they try to appear to be.””

“Passing through rows of ironical eyes, he was drawn as naturally to her loving glance as a plant to the sun.”

“Real life had only for a time overcast the spiritual peace he had found, but it was still untouched within him.”

“As for this little Petersburg swell, they're turned out by machinery, all on one pattern, and all precious rubbish.”

““What is a Pietist, papa?” asked Kitty, dismayed to find that what she prized so highly in Madame Stahl had a name.”

“You are altogether, as the French say, too primesautière a nature; you must have intense, energetic action, or nothing.”

“Countess Lidia Ivanovna looked at him ecstatically, and tears of rapture at the greatness of his soul came into her eyes.”

“Levin reddened with vexation, not at being defeated, but at having failed to control himself and being drawn into argument.”

“Stepan Arkadyevitch … liked his newspaper, as he did his cigar after dinner, for the slight fog it diffused in his brain.”

“Konstantin Levin did not like talking and hearing about the beauty of nature. Words for him took away the beauty of what he saw.”