Charm Quote by Marcel Proust

The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.

— Marcel Proust

“The charms of a passing woman are usually in direct relation to the speed of her passing.”

— Marcel Proust

Woman is generally so bad that the difference between a good and a bad woman scarcely exists.

— Leo Tolstoy

Generally speaking, woman is generally speaking.

— Vikrant Parsai

Behind every successful man is a woman, and it's generally not his wife...

— Anonymous

“Comparing man and woman generally, one may say that woman would not have the genius for adornment, if she had not the instinct for…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

...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

Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.

— Alexander Pope

“I had never thought about it, but summer was Dill by the fishpool smoking string, Dill's eyes alive with complicated plans to make Boo…

— Harper Lee

O. J. has an uncanny instinct for sensing when to make the move, when to makethe cut. He can kill you with a headfake,…

— Howard Cosell

For the production of man a different apprenticeship [from forests] was needed to sharpen the wits and quicken the higher manifestations of intellect -…

— Raymond Dart

In our view any awareness is an increment to consciousness, an added light, a reinforcement of psychic coherence. Its swiftness or instantaneity can hide…

— Gaston Bachelard

War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for…

— Anonymous

Time is the mercy of Eternity; without Time's swiftness Which is the swiftest of all things, all were eternal torment.

— William Blake

The difference between a mongrel and a thoroughbred, whether brute or man, is not in swiftness, beauty, or endurance, but in courage.

— Austin O'Malley