Top 90 Anna Godbersen Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “I’ve always believed in savoring the moments. In the end, they are the only things we’ll have.”

— Anna Godbersen

2. “The first stab of love is like a sunset, a blaze of color – oranges, pearly pinks, vibrant purples...”

— Anna Godbersen

3. “Heart-stopping envy is the sincerest form of flattery.”

— Anna Godbersen

4. “Don’t go looking for boys in the dark They will say pretty things then leave you with scars. Do go looking for boys in the park For that is where the true gentlemen are.”

— Anna Godbersen

5. “What a privilege it is to live now, at just this moment, and to be able to go anywhere...”

— Anna Godbersen

6. “Even when a girl is married she still never completely leaves her mother and father’s home.”

— Anna Godbersen

7. “Gossip is just a tool to distract people who have nothing better to do from feeling jealous of those few of us still remaining with noble hearts.”

— Anna Godbersen

8. “To look in the face of hard things and keep moving forward – that’s what one has to do.”

— Anna Godbersen

9. “There was plenty of life left and if he had to he would use it all to get her back. The time had passed for making promises to her-all that was left for him was to act.”

— Anna Godbersen

10. “I can’t imagine what my life was before. I can’t imagine ever being without you for very long again.”

— Anna Godbersen

11. “Oh yes, well, I find myself unconventional everywhere.”

— Anna Godbersen

12. “The value of secrets is ever fluctuating although ladies who have been in society for a long time learn that a secret kept can be worth more than a secret told.”

— Anna Godbersen

13. “It’s the craziest thing, but I can’t stop thinking about you.”

— Anna Godbersen

14. “All really interesting girls invent themselves.”

— Anna Godbersen

15. “It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer.”

— Anna Godbersen

16. “As she always did on any really important day, Penelope Hayes wore red.”

— Anna Godbersen

17. “So this was betrayal. It was like being left alone in the desert at dusk without water or warmth. It left your mouth dry and will broken. It sapped your tears and made you hollow.”

— Anna Godbersen

18. “He was a mystery to her, and every time she tried to solve him it caused her a little more pain. But when she tired to give him up he pursued her in her thoughts, stronger each time.”

— Anna Godbersen

19. “Already she could feel the stunning weight of a lifetime of regret for letting him go, and she knew that it was enought to bury her alive.”

— Anna Godbersen

20. “A lady must retain always her composure. Even in a rainstorm, she must appear joyous and dry. When she loses her composure, then the respect of her peers and her staff will follow in short order.”

— Anna Godbersen

21. “But in that moment she realized how false most smiles were and what a tremendous waste of time.”

— Anna Godbersen

22. “A man is made in the rough-and-tumble of the world a lady emerges from the flossy back rooms of her own imagination.”

— Anna Godbersen

23. “She found herself longing for home-not just for the hotel but for New York and all the real novels that she could lose herself in there.”

— Anna Godbersen

24. “So this is how life was, she thought with a faint smile: It wore you down until you emerged at its wildest, most unexpected ends.”

— Anna Godbersen

25. “What was it about that short creature with her wild hair and spurious air of purity and why would anyone much less two men love her and to such disastrous ends.”

— Anna Godbersen

26. “He was just like summer, and she loved summer. If she had any wish, it would be to live a lifetime of summers.”

— Anna Godbersen

27. “The living are made of nothing but flaws. The dead, with each passing day in the afterlife, become more and more impeccable to those who remain earthbound.”

— Anna Godbersen

28. “Girls took to dressing like boys, and though women had obtained the vote, we had swiftly moved on to pursuing flashier freedoms: necking in cars and smoking cigarettes and walking down city streets in flesh colored stockings.”

— Anna Godbersen

29. “Life was a short window and there was no sense in doing the wrong thing over and over even if it was so difficult to stop.”

— Anna Godbersen

30. “She was full of some strange energy that morning. Her every movement had purpose and life and she seemed to find satisfaction in every little thing.”

— Anna Godbersen

31. “She should have know that villains often come with pretty faces.”

— Anna Godbersen

32. “There was no pleasure like being envied on a mass scale.”

— Anna Godbersen

33. “We have glimpsed in it the future of high society: wealth without class.”

— Anna Godbersen

34. “Among her other talents were forgetting what she did not like and ignoring what she preferred not to see.”

— Anna Godbersen

35. “They were all dressed in their finest as though life really were some magical stage play in which every moment ought to be illuminated with its own bright spotlight.”

— Anna Godbersen

36. “She had had no idea what it would do to her seeing him in a suit.”

— Anna Godbersen

37. “She felt so much aware of her own beauty it seemed inconceivable that everybody else wouldn’t notice the difference too.”

— Anna Godbersen

38. “She was trying to sound tough and impatient, but she knew that vulnerable desire to be wooed was still brimming in her tone.”

— Anna Godbersen

39. “She was like a heroine in a novel that she herself was writing the character kept protesting that she was too strong for love and yet the narrator went on describing her desire.”

— Anna Godbersen

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40. “The headiest loves were the loves that couldn’t be.”

— Anna Godbersen

41. “Diana knew it wouldn’t be right, but then she told herself that things only looked wrong when there was someone to see you.”

— Anna Godbersen

42. “In New York there is always something to look at, but it is all infinitely more interesting through a window in the backseat of a limousine.”

— Anna Godbersen

43. “It is well known that a man, when wooing a lady to be his wife, must first win over the females she most confides in – her friends, of course, and her sister, if she has one.”

— Anna Godbersen

44. “You don’t need to marry a man with millions. You only need to be your exquisite self.”

— Anna Godbersen

45. “Living too much in one’s head can be dangerous.”

— Anna Godbersen

46. “That is what I want to tell you about: the girls with their short skirts and bright eyes and big-city dreams. The girls of 1929.”

— Anna Godbersen

47. “It is a truth universally acknowledge that there will always be a gentleman to dance with, except at just the moment when you require one most.”

— Anna Godbersen

48. “The world is such a marvel-it gave you trials, but if you were still and concentrated, if you tried to do the right thing, it always provided you with salvation.”

— Anna Godbersen

49. “That was how the heroine of a book would play it and Diana was still writing her own story the best heroines she’d always believed took their fate into their own hands.”

— Anna Godbersen

50. “They were a society whose chief vocations were to entertain and be entertained...”

— Anna Godbersen