Anita Brookner Quotes

In love deceit nearly always goes further than mistrust.

In love deceit almost always outstrips distrust.

An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

I know all about cheating. I've had six very successful marriages.

Love is a game in which one always cheats.

I love women, but I feel like you can't trust some of them. Some of them are liars, you know? Like I was in the park and I met this girl, she was cute and she had a dog. And I went up to her, we started talking. She told me her dog's name. Then I said, 'Does he bite?' She said, 'No.' And I said, 'Oh yeah? Then how does he eat?' Liar.

Neither gender is routinely more jealous - although women are more willing to work to win back a lover, while men tend to flaunt their money and status and are more likely to walk out to protect their self-esteem or save face.

I've had friends who say that they would never forgive cheating, but then they fall in love, the guy cheats, and they forgive him. I don't know what I would do.

If you hear that my soul mate still tells one or more of his exes he loves her, I want to know. Audio recording is preferable.

For the people that I love I only have one face but for some people we can't have one face.

My ex-girl told me, "I love you so much, and I know it's just a phase you're going through." When a woman comes at you like that, you look at her as being so mature because she understands if I'm cheating, it's not her problem, it's mine. When a man cheats, it's not a reflection of what she's not.

Whenever someone says the words 'Our friendship is more important than this,' watch out, because it almost never is.

Do me wrong, do me right, tell me lies, but hold me tight.

It is more difficult for a man to be faithful to his mistress when he is favored than when he is ill treated by her.

As an actor, I know that any feelings you're showing are manufactured. But I still don't want to fool my mind into thinking my wife's into another guy.

Stephan was secretive and a liar, but he was a very gentle and expert lover. She was the petted, cherished child, the desired mistress, the worshipped, perfumed goddess. She was all these things to Stephan - or so he made her believe.

In love the deceit generally outstrips the distrust.

What dangers you run, O noble souls! Often, you give your heart, but we take only your body. Your heart is left to you and you look at it in the shadows and shudder.

I know there are women, like my best friends, who would have gotten out of there the minute their boyfriend gave them a gun to hide. But I didn't. I got to admit the truth. It turned me on.

So often the truth is told with hate, and lies are told with love.

you don't love me, you just love my doggystyle

A man loses his sense of direction after four drinks; a woman loses hers after four kisses.

Once a woman turns against you, forget it. They can love you, then something turns in them. They can watch you dying in a gutter, run over by a car, and they'll spit on you.

It is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour.

If I love you, is that a fact or a weapon?