Steven Hart

“Woman, don't you know, is such a subject that however much you study it, it's always perfectly new." "Well, then, it would be better not to study it.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“For the demi-monde the members of that fashionable world believed that they despised, though their tastes were not merely similar, but in fact identical.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“in their eyes the position of an unsuccessful lover of a girl, or of any woman free to marry, might be ridiculous. But the position of a man pursuing a married woman, and, regardless of everything, staking his life on drawing her into adultery, has something fine and grand about it, and can never be ridiculous;”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“In his Petersburg world all people were divided into utterly opposed classes. One, the lower class, vulgar, stupid, and, above all, ridiculous people, who believe that one husband ought to live with the one wife whom he has lawfully married; that a girl should be innocent, a woman modest, and a man manly, self-controlled, and strong; that one ought to bring up one's children, earn one's bread, and pay one's debts; and various similar absurdities. This was the class of old-fashioned and ridiculous people.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina