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Opinion Quotes by George Eliot
- I'll tell you what's the greatest power under heaven, and that is public opinion-the ruling belief in society about what is right and what is…
- He was of an impressible nature, and lived a great deal in other people's opinions and feelings concerning himself...
- To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view…
- If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make…
- A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.
- I can't bare fishing. I think people look like fools sitting watching a line hour after hour or else throwing and throwing, and catching nothing.
More Opinion Quotes
- In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes,… — David Attenborough
- Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. — Marcus Aurelius
- How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks. — Marcus Aurelius
- I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets… — Marcus Aurelius
- Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride… — Jane Austen
- Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast. — Jane Austen
- There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to… — Jane Austen
- Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct. — Jane Austen
- Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think. — Alfred Austin
- Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone… — Teresa of Avila
- The possibility of my presidential candidacy emerged spontaneously in public opinion polls. For my part, I noticed people's affection when I was… — Michelle Bachelet