Famous Quotes

"Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination."

Marcel Proust on Women

More quotes about Women

• "A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water."

  Eleanor Roosevelt on Women

• "I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot."

  Marilyn Monroe on Women

• "Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent."

  Friedrich Nietzsche on Women

• "The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles."

  Ralph Waldo Emerson on Women

• "As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot."

  John Lennon on Women

More quotes by Marcel Proust

• "Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces."

• "It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body."

• "Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees."

• "A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves."

• "Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two."