Mother Quote by Marcel Proust Download Open image ““Even his mother, his own mother, had once accused him of being a snob.”” — Marcel Proust ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Accused Snob Mother Mother Accused Mother Mother Parenting Snob
“We're quick to think of people as snobs, little realizing that perhaps they suffer from the same insecurities that we do.” — Ken Puddicombe Copy Share Image
“Given his own amorality, he could quite easily have come to terms with her criminal tendencies, but he could never, being the snob that… — Elizabeth Palmer Copy Share Image
“never forget a snob is a person utterly lacking in good taste.” — Richard C. Morais Copy Share Image
“It struck me that, in the nicest possible way, she didn't really have a personality. She was a mother.” — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
“Misogyny is a son's outwardly projected rage on a mother who was unable to protect him.” — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“Mothers were the only ones you could depend on to tell the whole, unvarnished truth.” — Margaret Dilloway Copy Share Image
“There were a dozen reasons why she might refuse him. But they were all someone else’s reasons. Her mother’s, her peers’, society’s. She’d already… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
“The quote goes on about a woman scorned. Scorned. As if the jealousy of a lover could ever compete with the ferocity of a… — Sarah A. Denzil Copy Share Image
“His mother never gave up on him, even when he lashed out at her, took her money, and failed her in so many ways.… — Ron Franscell Copy Share Image
“He was the worst kind of confident. Not only was he shamelessly aware of his appeal, he was so used to women throwing themselves… — Jamie McGuire Copy Share Image
“machinery' of life at Versailles; and was able, too, to persuade herself that her silence, a shade of good humour or of arrogance on… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“For her [Françoise], wealth was like a necessary condition without which virtue would lack both merit and charm. She made so little distinction between… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Knowing does not always allow us to prevent, but at least the things that we know, we hold them, if not in our hands,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
...a writer's works, like the water in an artesian well, mount to a height which is in proportion to the depth to which suffering… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Then from those profound slumbers we awake in a dawn, not knowing who we are, being nobody, newly born, ready for anything, the brain… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Art extracted from the most familiar reality does indeed exist and its domain is perhaps the largest of any.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I find very reasonable the Celtic belief that the souls of our dearly departed are trapped in some inferior being, in an animal, aplant,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“When you heard anyone in the middle of a talk which was being deliberately kept off the Affair announce furtively some piece of political… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“We betroth ourselves by proxy, and then feel obliged to marry the intermediary.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“But the old lady on the contrary, far from justifying her daughter’s fears, felt every time someone of her own age “disappeared” that she… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw… — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
Laughing, laughing, laughing, laughing! It is the jester! A voice from the Void, to cheer poor Cicero! I accept your gift, dearest Night Mother.… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
(knitting while on a motorcycle) "For several years she knitted in secret (my father would not approve; she was to concentrate on motorcycling and… — Elizabeth Zimmermann Copy Share Image
The biggest change for me as a mom was realizing I needed to put someone else before me. Now the hardest part about the… — Kim Alexis Copy Share Image
My mother was strong-willed, demanding, and very supportive all at the same time. — Michael Spence Copy Share Image
Everything comes home, my mother used to say; every word spoken, every shadow cast, every footprint in the sand. It can't be helped; it's… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
I would give anything to be able to kick a ball with my son or read the kids a bedtime story. — Rob Burrow Copy Share Image
One of the ways that I discovered my confidence and my ability to overpower is becoming a mother. Suddenly, my world wasn't about myself… — Lights Copy Share Image
Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans. — Mortimer Zuckerman Copy Share Image