Noses Quote by Marcel Proust Download Open image “...the nose is generally the organ in which stupidity is most readily displayed.” — Marcel Proust ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Noses Organs Stupidity
It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
The ears, which master the face of a dunce, are that part of the head which most publishes stupidity. — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
If the nose has become a deeply disillusioned and grief-stricken organ in the modern world, then what of the ear? The poor little ear… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
I always have this red nose in my pocket, and if it looks like I'm taking things too seriously, or the person I'm talking… — Bernie Glassman Copy Share Image
You have no nose on your face. Where it is I can't say, but in your face it is not. — Zoidberg Copy Share Image
Stupidity is when you shave off your eyebrow and draw it back with an eye pencil — HermesCash Copy Share Image
It is of first-rate importance to notice from the start that stupidity is not the same thing, or the same sort of thing, as… — Gilbert Ryle 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
Valentine's Day: Rubbing singles' noses in their lack of a mate and the noses of couples in their lack of time. — Emma McLaughlin Copy Share Image
It goes to show you how we in the press so often miss the big stories that are right under our noses. There is… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the front door,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Sam reached his hand toward mine and I automatically put my fingers in his. With a guilty little smile he pulled my hand toward… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Together he [Girolamo Savonarola] and his archenemy Lorenzo [de' Medici] would have been the stuff of gargoyles. One could almost imagine the diptych in… — Sarah Dunant Copy Share Image
He put his hands on her shoulders and kissed her full on the mouth. His skin was wet with rain. When she didn't pull… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. You, O worthy one, are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Don't ever for a minute make the mistake of looking down your nose at westerns. They're art - the good ones, I mean. They… — John Wayne Copy Share Image
[Putin] is a bully. And bullies only understand when we punch them in the nose, but we need to do that economically. — Kelly Ayotte Copy Share Image
Arise Evans had a fungous nose, and said, it was revealed to him, that the King's hand would cure him, and at the first… — John Aubrey Copy Share Image
As nature made every man with a nose and eyes of his own, she gave him a character of his own, too; and yet… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
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