Guermantes Proust Quotes

#1. The only sin is self-hatred.

Paul Williams

#2. The Princess of Parma was a Courvoisier in that she was incapable of innovation in social matters, but unlike the Courvoisiers in that the surprises the Duchesse de Guermantes perpetually held in store for her engendered in her not, as in them, antipathy but a sense of wonder.

Marcel Proust

#3. This is the way I think I should always paint you- with a size twenty-four round brush in my hand as you coat the bristles

Ella Frank

#4. I had indeed suffered successively through Gilberte, through Mme de Guermantes, through Albertine. Successively also I had forgotten them and only my love, dedicated at different times to different beings, had lasted.

Marcel Proust

#5. To me she said, "It's this stupid gotcha thing, they've been doing it for weeks now. Leaping out at each other and us, scaring the hell out of everyone."
"It's a game of wits," Bert said to me.
"Half-wits," Kristy added.

Sarah Dessen

#6. F the beginning of the thought or theory is not rooted in reality, the end or the final results of such a thought or theory could well be disastrous in practice.

Nirmala Srivastava

#7. I won't have any paste-related crimes laid on my head.

Veronica Wolff

#8. Resolutions are flying like snowflakes around here.

Arlen Specter

#9. I think of myself now as a writer, although I wouldn't go as far as to say 'novelist' because that sounds like a Victorian person.

Dawn French

#10. I felt less unhappy than usual because her melancholy expression, the way the vivid colour of her dress almost cut her off from the rest of the world, made her seem somehow lonely and unhappy, and I found this reassuring.

Marcel Proust

#11. In the periods of crisis, the bigger firms absorb the smaller ones,and when the industrial monsters eventually go down, the wreckage is far greater than when the little enterprises buckle.

Robert Heilbroner

#12. Within the reigning social order, the general public must remain an object of manipulation, not a participant in thought, debate, and decision.

Noam Chomsky