Best George Eliot Quotations
- Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Deep
- The wrong that rouses our angry passions finds only a medium in us; it passes through us like a vibration, and we inflict what we… Anger Management
- There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles... but there is one order of beauty which seems… All
- Who has not felt the beauty of a woman's arm? The unspeakable suggestions of tenderness that lie in the dimpled elbow, and all the varied… All
- We must not inquire too curiously into motives. they are apt to become feeble in the utterance: the aroma is mixed with the grosser air.… Air
- To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath. Inspirational
- It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks. Always Good
- There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence. Agonies
- There is no hour that has not its births of gladness and despair, no morning brightness that does not bring new sickness to desolation as… Balance
- There's folks as make bad butter and trusten to the salt t' hide it. Bad
- Oh, child, men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness... Child
- How lovely the little river is, with its dark changing wavelets! It seems to me like a living companion while I wander along the bank,… Along
- A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side. Disposition
- Souls have complexions too: what will suit one will not suit another Complexion
- The best travel is that which one can take by one's own fireside. In memory or imagination. Best
- Imagination is a licensed trespasser: it has no fear of dogs, but may climb over walls and peep in at windows with impunity. Climb
- Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty — it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it. Beauty
- You must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin. And the other is, you… Always Looking
- We want people to feel with us more than to act for us. Act
- Self-confidence is apt to address itself to an imaginary dullness in others; as people who are well off speak in a cajoling tone to the… Address
- The law and medicine should be very serious professions to undertake, should they not? People's lives and fortunes depend on them. Depend
- Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means -one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of fortune… Astray
- Blows are sarcasms turned stupid. Blow
- There are glances of hatred that stab, and raise no cry of murder. Cry
- I suppose it was that in courtship everything is regarded as provisional and preliminary, and the smallest sample of virtue or accomplishment is taken to… Accomplishment
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