WOMEN in Classic Quotes
Simple words can express big ideas - learn how great writers to make beautiful sentences with common words.
Quotes from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
| Search Panel |
Word: | ||
You may input your word or phrase. | ||
Author: | ||
Book: | ||
Stems: | ||
If search object is a contraction or phrase, it'll be ignored. | ||
Sort by: | ||
Each search starts from the first page. Its result is limited to the first 20 sentences. If you upgrade to a VIP account, you will see up to 500 sentences for one search.
| Current Search - women in Anna Karenina |
1 I have a loathing for fallen women.
2 truer to say: there are women and there are.
3 One simply strokes the bristles of dead women.
4 Well, these women are sometimes to be met in reality.
5 You know to me all women are divided into two classes.
6 It was a set made up of elderly, ugly, benevolent, and godly women, and clever, learned, and ambitious men.
7 Somehow or other these women are still looked on with contempt by them, and do not touch on their feeling for their family.
8 When half the children had been dressed, some peasant women in holiday dress, out picking herbs, came up to the bathing-shed and stopped shyly.
9 What pleased her most of all was that she saw clearly what all the women admired more than anything was her having so many children, and such fine ones.
10 The peasant women even made Darya Alexandrovna laugh, and offended the English governess, because she was the cause of the laughter she did not understand.
11 Darya Alexandrovna felt disinclined to leave the peasant women, so interesting to her was their conversation, so completely identical were all their interests.
12 There was a merry chatter of peasant women over their linen at the pond, and the ring of axes in the yard, where the peasants were repairing ploughs and harrows.
13 Marya Philimonovna called one of them and handed her a sheet and a shirt that had dropped into the water for her to dry them, and Darya Alexandrovna began to talk to the women.
14 Levin listened in silence, and in spite of all the efforts he made, he could not in the least enter into the feelings of his friend and understand his sentiments and the charm of studying such women.
15 Vronsky heard with pleasure this light-hearted prattle of a pretty woman, agreed with her, gave her half-joking counsel, and altogether dropped at once into the tone habitual to him in talking to such women.
16 He had heard that women often did care for ugly and ordinary men, but he did not believe it, for he judged by himself, and he could not himself have loved any but beautiful, mysterious, and exceptional women.
17 She was fond of Kitty, and her affection for her showed itself, as the affection of married women for girls always does, in the desire to make a match for Kitty after her own ideal of married happiness; she wanted her to marry Vronsky.
18 He remembered how his brother, while at the university, and for a year afterwards, had, in spite of the jeers of his companions, lived like a monk, strictly observing all religious rites, services, and fasts, and avoiding every sort of pleasure, especially women.
19 The greater number of the young women, who envied Anna and had long been weary of hearing her called virtuous, rejoiced at the fulfillment of their predictions, and were only waiting for a decisive turn in public opinion to fall upon her with all the weight of their scorn.
20 Holding herself extremely erect, as always, looking straight before her, and moving with her swift, resolute, and light step, that distinguished her from all other society women, she crossed the short space to her hostess, shook hands with her, smiled, and with the same smile looked around at Vronsky.
Your search result possibly is over 20 sentences. If you upgrade to a VIP account, you will see up to 500 sentences for one search.