Quote by George Eliot Download Open image ““i am always bored." (gwendolen harleth)”” — George Eliot ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“She seems so depressed sometimes by the monotony and boredom of her city life, I thought maybe in this endless grass and wind she… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“The girl who played Gwendolen stood out like a good deed in a naughty world.” — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“One thing you can count on when visiting the Nevernever: you don't ever get bored.” — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“Don’t bore me with the facts, because once I’m finally forced to face them I will find myself desperately wishing that I could be… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Gwen wasn’t sure if she was still alive, but if she wasn’t, what a way to go.” — N.J. Walters Copy Share Image
“JACK You're quite perfect, Miss Fairfax. GWENDOLEN Oh! I hope I am not that. It would leave no room for developments, and I intend… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The bored haughty face that she turned to the world concealed something--most affectations conceal something eventually, even though they don't in the beginning--” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“I'm so bored I could do something, but can't be arsed. I'm unmotivated as well as bored. It's a killer combination.” — Gillibran Brown Copy Share Image
“Just her and the great outdoors. Gwendolyn Margaret Passmore and a million blades of grass.” — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
“Lord John: 'The court has suffered most sorely for your absence. We hardly know where to find our amusement now.' Lady Nora: 'I am… — Meredith Duran Copy Share Image
“She, who was bored almost to agony, and who had nothing at all to do, she had not time to think even, seriously, of… — D.H. Lawrence 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
