Do you suppose that it is within your power to insult me? You evidentl…

Marcel Proust
245 citations
Do you suppose that it is within your power to insult me? You evidently are not aware to whom you are speaking? Do you imagine that the envenomed spittle of five hundred little gentlemen of your type, heaped one upon another, would succeed in slobbering so much as the tips of my august toes? ✨ Marcel Proust (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated), p.2149, Delphi Classics
Politics
24

More Author Quotes

If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two. ✨ Marcel Proust (2002). In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, Viking Press
To achieve accurate knowledge of others, if such a thing were possible, we could only ever arrive at it through the slow and unsure recognition of our own initial optical inaccuracies. However, such … ▶
Love is not vain because it is frustrated, but because it is fulfilled. The people we love turn to ashes when we posess them.
In the sort of screen dappled with different states of mind which my consciousness would simultaneously unfold while I read, and which ranged from the aspirations hidden deepest within me to the comp … ▶
There are mountainous, arduous days, up which one takes an infinite time to climb, and downward-sloping days which one can descend at full tilt, singing as one goes. ✨ Marcel Proust (2015). Swann's W … ▶

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes