"The Female Quixote" Quotes
A young woman's obsession with romantic novels leads her to live in a fantasy world, blurring the line between fiction and reality.
classics | 345 pages | Published in 2020
Quotes
She had as much vanity as a woman and as much curiosity as a child.
Her imagination was lively, her feelings delicate, and her understanding weak.
She was always more affected by the style than the matter of a discourse.
She was as much a stranger to the world as if she had been born and educated in a desert.
She had a natural propensity to ridicule, and a particular pleasure in exposing the absurdities of others.
She mistook the admiration her beauty inspired for the esteem due to her merit.
She knew not the difference between virtues and vices, nor had she any notion of moral good or evil.
Her notions of love were all romantic and extravagant.
Her conduct was as wild and irregular as her imagination.
She had built a thousand castles in the air, which she mistook for solid mansions.
