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Order Quotes by George Eliot
- 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…
- Husbands are an inferior class of men, who require keeping in order,
- Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead…
- There is one order of beauty which seems made to turn heads. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks…
- Eros has degenerated; he began by introducing order and harmony, and now he brings back chaos.
- but very little achievement is required in order to pity another man's shortcomings.
- A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.
More Order Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. — Richard Bach
- Banks are so protected from liability they would have to really do something that was their mistake in order for them to… — Frank Abagnale
- Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything… — Francis of Assisi
- If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not… — Francis of Assisi
- Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. — Chinua Achebe
- Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel. — David Attenborough
- The weaker the data available upon which to base one's conclusion, the greater the precision which should be quoted in order to… — Norman Ralph Augustine
- The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle. — Marcus Aurelius
- Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of… — Jane Austen
- When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to… — Teresa of Avila