Year Proust

Famous quotes containing the words year and/or proust:

“But she is early up and out,
To trim the year or strip its bones;”
—Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)

“My consolation is to think of the women I have known, now that there is no longer such thing as elegance. But how can people who contemplate these horrible creatures under their hats covered in pigeon-houses or gardens, how can they understand the charm of seeing Madame Swann wearing a simple mauve cap or a small hat surmounted by a straight iris?”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)