A wife's a worry, a non-wife's even worse.

I ask one thing: I ask the right to hope and suffer as I do now." Vronsky

Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.

excuse me' he added, taking the opera glasses out of her hands and looking over her bare shoulder at the row of boxes opposite, 'i'm afraid i'm becoming ridiculous

There is no significant idea which cannot be explained to an intelligent twelve year old boy in fifteen minutes.

Can it be that there is not enough space for man in this beautiful world, under those immeasurable, starry heavens?

That only shows you have no heart,’ she said. But her eyes said that she knew he had a heart, and that was why she was afraid of him