Quotes About Guermantes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. As an artist, you need to be not at all entitled in your relation with the work. So money is kind of worrying. You can start to expect things if you're used to a certain level of comfort.

Eleanor Catton

#4. However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power.

Kate Millett

#5. Like God and Duane Reade drugstores, toxins are everywhere.

A. J. Jacobs

#6. I find words really hard.

Liam Gallagher

#7. I must admit I suffered a bit when I first came to England. But then I realised that there was nothing to be intimidated by, everybody had two legs.

George Lucas

#8. If everyone could understand the working of a psychopath's mind, we undoubtedly would be closer to insanity ourselves.

Dan Simmons

#9. My mum and I do cardio kickboxing classes together.

Vanessa Hudgens

#10. My memory's bad!

Jeremy Sumpter

#11. 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

#12. In the light of our egos, we are all dethroned monarchs

Charlie Chaplin