Life Quote by Marcel Proust

It is one of the many merits of this admirable biography of Proust's mother that it invites one to return to the novel with…

— Allan Massie

“Thanks to a three-million-dollar inheritance from the grandparents who raised him, he was financially set for life.”

— John A. Heldt

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

— Benjamin Franklin

“If we wanted to think about it,’ wrote Proust, ‘perhaps there is no really loving mother who could not, on her dying day, and…

— Alain de Botton

“he now paid the allowance that permitted his son to live in frugal idleness.”

— Joseph O'Neill

“My grandfather created a fortune that allowed him to live in luxury. He also went on to build the first industrial building in an…

— Celso Cukierkorn

“As any first son staking claim to his family inheritance at an ailing father's behest, living as the heir to the Duke of Blendingham…

— Percival Avery

“He was a descendant from the younger branch of an illustrious family, and it was designed, that the deficiency of his patrimonial wealth should…

— Ann Radcliffe

“The rich world of his ancestors set the standards for Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s own life. It gave him a certainty of judgment and manner that…

— Eric Metaxas

“His life had been spent pursuing excellence and amassing a great fortune, but now that it was ending, there was no one he was…

— Steven Decker

To the one that struggled long for his wealth, that wealth is his life.

— Mariana Fulger

“The meritocratic society has given way to a hereditary meritocracy. The children of the rich are overwhelmingly likely to stay rich.”

— Edward Luce