Small States

Famous quotes containing the words small and/or states:

“Doth it not show vilely in me to desire small beer?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“It may be said that the elegant Swann’s 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 (1871–1922)