Thoughtful Quote by Marcel Proust Download Open image ““With graceful deviations in which caprice is blended with virtuosity”” — Marcel Proust ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Thoughtful
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice? — Stendhal Copy Share Image
“I could picture how Caprice was before we lost her. Dark hair, beautiful smile, intelligent hazel eyes, quick wit. Now gone. Just gone. Like… — Cheyenne McCray Copy Share Image
“Gratior est pulchro veniens de corpore virtus—Virtue appears peculiarly graceful when associated with beauty.” — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
Beauty has often overpowered the resolutions of the firm, and the reasonings of the wise, roused the old to sensibility, and subdued the rigorous… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“We see beauty in simplicity because we can see its underlying efficiency.” — Andrew Thomas Copy Share Image
“Elegance is the perfect disguise for our violent nature—a mask so convincing that we often fool ourselves the moment we don it.” — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure. — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole. — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“We create order out of chaos, beauty and meaning out of ugly randomness.” — Rick Riordan 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
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
Angela Merkel has been focused on the right things. She has focused on the interests of her citizens - and not just in a… — Justin Trudeau Copy Share Image
It is ironic since whenever I have met with our elected officials they are invariably thoughtful, well-meaning people. And yet collectively 90% of their… — Sergey Brin Copy Share Image
Majority decisions tend to be made without engaging the systematic thought and critical thinking skills of the individuals in the group. Given the force… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The hardest thing about being a guy is that women don't accept that you really are just a simple, pathetic, labrador retriever-like creature. That… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
As our domestic fowls are said to have their original in the wild pheasant of India, so our domestic thoughts have their prototypes in… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In history as it comes to be written, there is usually some Spirit of the Age which historians can define, but the shape of… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
I have watchedmany literary fashions shoot up and blossom, and then fade and drop.... Yet with the many that I have seen comeand go,… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
To one who is accustomed to thinking a lot, every new thought that he hears or reads about immediately appears as a link in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
As more Americans meet Mitt Romney, I think they'll see beyond the handsome exterior and see not just a good salesman, but a thoughtful… — Kathryn Jean Lopez Copy Share Image
