Amusing Quote by George Eliot Download Open image “bad literature of the sort called amusing is spiritual gin.” — George Eliot ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Amusing Books Gin Literature Spiritual
Religious literature has eminent examples, and if we run over our private list of poets, critics, philanthropists and philosophers, we shall find them infected… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“You can love a bad book for its haplessness or pomposity or gall, if you have that starveling appetite for things human which I… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“At present, I am particularly excited by "bad taste." I have the deep feeling that there exists in the very essence of bad taste… — Yves Klein Copy Share Image
“Literature keeps presenting the most vicious things to us an entertainment, but what it appeals to is not any pleasure of these things, but… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time all the men of mind and genius in the world became of one belief—that is to say, of no belief.… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Perhaps the perusal of such works may, without injustice, be compared with the use of opiates, baneful, when habitually and constantly resorted to, but… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
“This work is part of what is now a huge literature on the often harmful effects of rumination and explicit analysis on people’s ability… — Edward Slingerland Copy Share Image
If the mystical lovers of the arts, who consider all criticism dissection and all dissection destruction of enjoyment, thought logically, an exclamation like "Goodness… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“Reading a book is like having the ability to dip a straw into the author’s soul and sip and slurp without lowering the water… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“This consists in not taking a book into one’s hand merely because it is interesting the great public at the time — such as… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“[W]e must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Mr. Casaubon had never had a strong bodily frame, and his soul was sensitive without being enthusiastic: it was too languid to thrill out… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“... she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that "men would be so", and viewing the stronger sex… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“But any one watching keenly the stealthy convergence of human lots, sees a slow preparation of effects from one life on another, which tells… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“I have found it an amusing strategy, when asked whether I am an atheist, to point out that the questioner is also an atheist… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous... I am only a public entertainer who… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained. Celebration is an active… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
No one survives in times of war unless they make war their home. How did I get so old and wise, but for welcoming… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot before I… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
[A]n Obama presidency would be an amusing approximation of the Carter administration, complete with vaporous moralizing and foreign policy bungling. — Emmett Tyrrell Copy Share Image
Men are not amusing during the shooting season; but, after all, my dear, men were not especially designed to amuse women. — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
All men are fools, if truth be told, but the ones in motley are more amusing than ones with crowns. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most poetry is the utterance of a man in some state of passion, love, joy, grief, rage, etc., and no doubt this is as… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
It's always amusing to see how much less the political class knows than the rest of us do. ... it's never occurred to [the… — Stephen D. Cox Copy Share Image
Are there bears in these mountains?" he asked. His companion nodded. "Of course. But it's a bit early in the year for them to… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
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