Famous quotes containing the word one:
“The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.”
—Freya Stark (b. 18931993)
“It may be said that the elegant Swanns simplicity was but another, more refined form of vanity and that, like other Israelites, my parents old friend could present, one by one, the succession of states through which had passed his race, from the most naive snobbishness to the worst coarseness to the finest politeness.”
—Marcel Proust (18711922)
“When one by one our ties are torn,
And friend from friend is snatched forlorn;
When man is left alone to mourn,
Oh! then how sweet it is to die!”
—Anna Letitia (Aikin)
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