“What she lacks in poetry she makes up for in venom”
Sarra Manning (1950) British writer
“She was remorseless, but she lacked method.”
Source: Howl's Moving Castle
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Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica
Variant: She lacks the core of sureness, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on reflections of herself in others' eyes. She does not dare to be herself.
Source: Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin
“She wept with shame for her lack of will and with fear for a love she couldn't control.”
Judith McNaught (1944) American writer
Source: Perfect
“She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.”
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Variant: She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.”
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
Widely attributed to Shaw, this quotation is actually of unknown origin.
Misattributed
Variant: She had lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
Doris Lessing (1919–2013) British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer
Source: The Grass is Singing
Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964) American novelist, short story writer
Source: A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories
Roman Polanski (1933) Polish-French film director, producer, writer, actor, and rapist
Roman by Polanski (1984)
Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
2010s, 2016, July, This Week Interview (July 30, 2016)
