The Rules of Engagement Quotes

“I concluded that I was simply not good enough to gain re-admission to the high standards of fiction and must make do with the sorry business of real life”
― Anita Brookner, The Rules of Engagement

“We have it on the highest authority that the meek shall inherit the earth. But if the meek don't want it?”
― Anita Brookner, The Rules of Engagement

“According to the tabloid which I now read over breakfast, fifty is the new thirty. But this is not true: at thirty, one still has expectations.”
― Anita Brookner, The Rules of Engagement

“That instant proved to me that it was not the first, almost unemotional, sighting of a potential lover that was significant, but the second, the moment not of recognition but of confirmation, so that every other consideration is irrelevant, as if it might have mattered at some point in the past but no longer had any currency in the charged wordless exchange that seals the matter for ever, regardless of the dangers thus incurred and whatever the cost.”
― Anita Brookner, The Rules of Engagement