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Great Saying By Great Authors Quotes by George Eliot
- More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
- ... we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them ...
- Obligation may be stretched till it is no better than a brandof slavery stamped on us when we were too young to know its meaning.
- There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of theroom, and to have a discussion coolly waived when…
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