Marcel Proust Quotes
Conversation, which is friendship's mode of expression, is a superficial digression which gives us nothing worth acquiring. We may talk for a lifetime without doing more than indefinitely repeat the vacuity of a minute.
Marcel Proust
Quotes to Explore
Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
W. Somerset Maugham
I firmly believe, only because I've been doing this for so long, every show takes three years. 90% of them don't get three years. It just does. It takes a long time to build a community, build a friendship with your characters. It's hard for people to grasp on and make them care about you.
Kaley Cuoco
Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.
Namie Amuro
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
Oliver Goldsmith
I mix talents and friendship, which is not very professional, but it's my way of thinking. So I love Azzedine Alaia, because I've known him for 30 years, and he's making my dresses most of the time.
Carine Roitfeld
I left for New York expecting to repeat my success, only to be turned down by almost every publisher in that city, till the Viking Press, my American publishers of a lifetime, thought of taking me on.
Patrick White
A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
Saint Basil
I lend people money, but I'd never lend something that would jeopardise a friendship if I didn't get it back.
Paloma Faith
It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
Pablo Picasso
Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
It is time to realize that neither socialism, nor friendship, nor good-neighborliness, nor respect can be produced by bayonets, tanks or blood.
Eduard Shevardnadze
Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse.
C. S. Lewis
For me, sex is a refraction of the thing about identity. In the sexual contact, which is usually - but not exclusively - between two people, you do retain separate people.
Tilda Swinton
Most of us know what we should expect to find in a dragon's lair, but, as I said before, Eustace had read only the wrong books. They had a lot to say about exports and imports and governments and drains, but they were weak on dragons.
C. S. Lewis
The American people need to know where this man stands on the issue of privacy.
Nancy Keenan
Conversation, which is friendship's mode of expression, is a superficial digression which gives us nothing worth acquiring. We may talk for a lifetime without doing more than indefinitely repeat the vacuity of a minute.
Marcel Proust
