Men and women Quotes by George Eliot

12 Men and women quotes by George Eliot

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Eliot’s keen eye for human character shines through even in a brief selection. These twelve lines offer a solid starting point for anyone curious about how she perceived the interplay of masculine and feminine roles in society.

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I'm not denying the women are foolish: God almighty made 'em to match the men

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We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinnertime.

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It's no trifle at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution

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Men and women are but children of a larger growth.

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Men and women make sad mistakes about their own symptoms, taking their vague uneasy longings, sometimes for genius, sometimes for religion, and…

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You are discontented with the world because you can't get just the small things that suit your pleasure, not because it's a…

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It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with…

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There is nothing I should care more to do, if it were possible, than to rouse the imagination of men and women…

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We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale…

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“As for other acquaintances, there is a chill air surrounding those who are down in the world, and people are glad to…

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“As for other acquaintances – there is a chill air surrounding those who are down in the world and people are glad…

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“To have taken Maggie by the hand and said, “I will not believe unproved evil of you: my lips should not utter…

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There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles.

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But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on…

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Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill.

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Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness.

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The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from…

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“[W]e must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range…

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“Mr. Casaubon had never had a strong bodily frame, and his soul was sensitive without being enthusiastic: it was too languid to thrill out…

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“... she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that "men would be so", and viewing the stronger sex…

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What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity.

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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.

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“But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure…

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“But any one watching keenly the stealthy convergence of human lots, sees a slow preparation of effects from one life on another, which tells…

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Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial…

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