"Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries." — George Eliot

"Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries."

— George Eliot

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580 Quotes by George Eliot

George Eliot has 580 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.
What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind - the uglier we get in…
Kisses honeyed by oblivion.
Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing…
Joy is the best of wine.
Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at…
I couldn't live in peace if I put the shadow of a willful sin between myself and God.
Hatred is like fire, it makes even light rubbish deadly.
There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.
Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must…
Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love - that makes life and nature…
It is good to be helpful and kindly, but don't give yourself to be melted into candle grease for the…

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This very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Indeed, among the lesser auxiliaries to success in love, an absence, the declining of an invitation to dinner, an unintentional,… — Marcel Proust
A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
All mathematical laws which we find in Nature are always suspect to me, in spite of their beauty. They give… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities, that have… — Lord Acton
Form, color, composition, drawing, are auxiliaries, any one of which... can be dispensed with. — Harold Rosenberg
Mystery and disappointment are not absolutely indispensable to the growth of love, but they are, very often, its powerful auxiliaries. — Charles Dickens

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