People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as…

Quote by Marcel Proust

Topics: Women Quotes

The bonds that unite another person to ourselves exist only in our mind. Memory as...

The bonds that unite another person to ourselves exist only in our mind. Memory as...

The opinions which we hold of one another, our relations with friends and kinfolk are...

The opinions which we hold of one another, our relations with friends and kinfolk are...

All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going...

All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going...

In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman whom...

In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman whom...

Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be...

Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be...

Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.

Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.

As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what...

As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what...

A powerful idea communicates some of its power to the man who contradicts it

A powerful idea communicates some of its power to the man who contradicts it

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

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

Our passions shape our books, repose writes them in the intervals.

Our passions shape our books, repose writes them in the intervals.

It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint,...

It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint,...

In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says...

In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says...

Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them

Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them

There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth...

There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth...

It has been said that beauty brings a promise of happiness, but it could be...

It has been said that beauty brings a promise of happiness, but it could be...

Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it...

Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it...

We become moral when we are unhappy.

We become moral when we are unhappy.

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we...

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we...

I grew up to have my father's looks- my father's speech patterns-my father's posture- my...

I grew up to have my father's looks- my father's speech patterns-my father's posture- my...

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.