"Colombe Josse is the older Jesse daughter. Colombe……" — Muriel Barbery
"Colombe Josse is the older Jesse daughter. Colombe Jesse is also a sort of tall blonde leek who dresses like a penniless Bohemian. If there is one thing I despise, it is the perverse affectation of rich people who go around dressing as if they were poor, in second-hand clothes, ill-fitting gray bonnets, socks full of holes, and flowered shirts under threadbare sweaters. Not only is it ugly, it is also insulting: nothing is more despicable than a rich man's scorn for a poor man's longing."
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Muriel Barbery
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92 Quotes by Muriel Barbery
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Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with…
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One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts…
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Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding.
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Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.
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The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs…
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Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy, affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly; the one completes a villain,…
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Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed.
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Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.
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