21 Quotes by Hannah Rothschild

Beauty and desire to possess have driven men mad for centuries. Add a hundred and twenty billion dollars annually to that equation and you have serious trouble.

Anastasia's letter had made her realise something: Jane didn't miss wealth, or youth; what she missed desperately was friendship.

He’d never understood women; men were so simple by comparison. Centuries of absolute power had dulled the male brain, whereas women, forced for so long to cajole and manipulate, had evolved into far more complex and capable beings.

Beauty and desire to possess have driven men mad for centuries.

She let hope in—hope for a different kind of future and another long-lost dream: the longing to make someone else happy.

. . . family is a thing you have to put up with. You hope to respect them, even like them, but it’s better not to set the bar too high.

Real intimacy was a delicate cloth of shared experiences stitched together by tiny accretions of time, mutual trust and support. It wasn’t something that could be folded, put away and shaken out when the need presented itself.

What happens between two people is mystifying; the opposite of what you think can be closer to the truth.

I’m not sure love makes sense even to those who are involved. If we could simply explain it like an algorithm or a theory, we might lose interest.