English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Marcel Proust Quotes

[My grandmother] was so humble of heart and so gentle that her tenderness for others and her disregard for herself and her own troubles blended in a smile which, unlike those seen on the majority of human faces, bore no trace of irony save for herself, while for all of us kisses seemed to spring from her eyes, which could not look upon those she loved without seeming to bestow upon them passionate caresses.

Marcel Proust

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

Jordan Knight quote: "I just had to block someone on Facebook who was impersonating..."
I just had to block someone on Facebook who was impersonating my wife. Jordan Knight
Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples? Ted Olson
William Hazlitt quote: "A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work..."
A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles. William Hazlitt
Barack Obama quote: "We must act, knowing that our work will be imperfect."
We must act, knowing that our work will be imperfect. Barack Obama
The peculiar idea that bigger is better has been around for at least as long as I have, and it's always bothered me. There is within it the implication that it is more difficult for God to care about a gnat than about a galaxy. Creation is just as visible in a grain of sand as in a skyful of stars. The church is not immune from the bigger-is-better heresy. One woman told of going to a meeting where only a handful of people turned out, and these faithful few were scolded by the visiting... Madeleine L'Engle
Oscar Levant quote: "Once I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision."
Once I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision. Oscar Levant
Noel Coward quote: "Extraordinary how potent cheap music is."
Extraordinary how potent cheap music is. Noel Coward
Lao Tzu quote: "The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in..."
The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world. Lao Tzu
Christiane Amanpour quote: "We manage the fear, I manage the fear, but it certainly takes..."
We manage the fear, I manage the fear, but it certainly takes its toll, the strain does. Christiane Amanpour
Sadie Frost quote: "Just to be remembered is good enough for me. Lots of people..."
Just to be remembered is good enough for me. Lots of people are forgotten. Sadie Frost
W. Edwards Deming quote: "It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory."
It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory. W. Edwards Deming
Fate intervened. Some of us, that day, she led inexorably through the gates of death. Some of us, innocent and unsuspecting, took, unwillingly, that one last step to oblivion. Some of us took very little sugar. Shirley Jackson
Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on? J. R. R. Tolkien
We [Raymond and Meursault] stared at each other without blinking, and everything came to a stop there between the sea, the sand, and the sun, and the double silence of the flute and the water. It was then that I realized that you could either shoot or not shoot. Albert Camus
Adele quote: "So is it over is this really it You've given up so easily I..."
So is it over is this really it You've given up so easily I thought you loved me more than this Adele