Judith Krantz > Quotes

“Did she make you laugh? Did she love you as much as you loved her? Did she protect you and warm you and keep you from suffering? Valentine turned her eyes away from him, unable to face the empty answer in his face but not wanting to stop saying what she had thought for so long. "I saw how fascinating her mystery was to you. For my part, I think that the mystery is always greatest where there is the most-emptiness. A person full of life is never mysterious, on the contrary.”
― Judith Krantz, Scruples

“For my part, I think that the mystery is always greatest where there is the most - emptiness.”
― Judith Krantz, Scruples

“I'm quite convinced that it's energy and humor. The two of them combined equal charm.”
― judith krantz

“Anyway, how can you say things like that? You don't know me at all." She wasn't really caught up in this game, but she was enjoying it, as she had enjoyed the dozens of declarations that had been made to her since she was eleven. Her earliest memories were of being told how beautiful she was. Something in her never believed the words, never felt satisfied. It wasn't modesty; it was a craving for more proof than anyone had ever yet given her. Her mind worked constantly at trying to understand for herself exactly what other people saw when they looked at her. She could never grasp it whole and living. Her deepest fantasy was to step outside of her skin and look at herself and find out just what people were thinking about. She spent her life experimenting with people to see how she could make them react, as if, in their response, she could discover herself.”
― Judith Krantz, Scruples

“It is strange, is it not, how an accident of a millimeter here, a millimeter there, makes one face so important. Think about it Elliot, She has two eyes, a nose, a mouth, just like everyone else. It,s all in tiny degrees of placement, such small area of magic to make such a big difference. For me, Elliot, I must tell you it is a hard thing to understand- why these things, these millimeters, are so crucial to you, you of all men.”
― Judith Krantz, Scruples

“knowing something is not believing... ”
― Judith Krantz, Lovers

“GIRLS MAY START OUT SMART BUT NOT ALL GIRLS STAY SO DAMNED SMART..”
― Judith Krantz, Lovers

“Some questions are not meant to be asked as long as the answers are right.”
― Judith Krantz, Scruples

“it is strange, is it not, how an accident of millimeter here, a millimeter there, makes one face so important.”
― Judith Krantz, Scruples

“He had put so much space behind him that he had finally reached that place at which the past was indeed another country, the future was unimportant, only today existed, and even today merely unfolded, minute by minute.”
― Judith Krantz, Scruples Two: Fifteen Years Later

“Me pregunto cómo sería el mundo si todos viviéramos realmente como si no hubiera mañana.”
― Judith Krantz, Mistral's Daughter

“Physical compatibility is a question of skin first and foremost. If the contact of one skin on another isn’t immediately pleasing nothing else can possibly matter, but if it is, all other things may follow.”
― Judith Krantz, Mistral's Daughter

“Horse People may be heads of state or professionally unemployed in their private lives, but horses are their passion, as Jerusalem was the passion of the soldier in some ancient crusade. The cult of the horse as their idol is as central to their lives as cocaine is to some and applause is to others.”
― Judith Krantz, Princess Daisy

“Not tears of happiness, but rather tears of that sudden sadness that comes at those rare moments of perfect joy that are fully realized at the exact instant at which they are being experienced. Such knowledge always carries in it a premonition of loss, a premonition which needs no reason or explanation.”
― Judith Krantz, Princess Daisy

“There,”
― Judith Krantz, Scruples

“Fauve clenched her fists and bounded up from her bed, her gloom vanished in a rush of combat, which translated itself into the one eternal question which can make any female creature forget even such profound questions as the brevity of youth, the fleetingness of time.
What was she going to wear ?”
― Judith Krantz, Mistral's Daughter

“knowledge of”
― Judith Krantz, Dazzle: A Novel

“Of all human sins, the only one Anabel really found unforgivable was unkindness.”
― Judith Krantz, Princess Daisy

“The Talmud says ‘When a man faces his Maker, he will have to account for those pleasures of life he failed to experience.’ That’s one part of the Talmud I know and the one part I agree with entirely.”
― Judith Krantz, Mistral's Daughter

“give Marguerite”
― Judith Krantz, Princess Daisy

“George Bernard Shaw said it. ‘People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, they make them.”
― Judith Krantz, Princess Daisy