Quote by George Eliot Download Open image ““I magnified, as usual, the impression any word or deed of mine could produce on others.”” — George Eliot ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“To each his own milieu. Enhance what was already in one's possession.” — Nella Larsen Copy Share Image
“Be a reflection of what you'd like to see in others. You get in return what you give.” — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
“How strange it is beholding this, and, very confident, proclaim that such magnificence occurred by accident.” — Joyce Rachelle Copy Share Image
“But it is by our actions, surely, and not by our words, that we reveal our worth.” — Susanna Kearsley (Author Copy Share Image
“May any praise of your character come from others instead of yourself.” — Joyce Rachelle Copy Share Image
“Reflect that nothing merits admiration except the spirit, the impressiveness of which prevents it from being impressed by anything.” — Seneca Copy Share Image
“You could say that all my characters are reflections of myself, in that I share their wish to count for something, and their utmost… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
“The admiration you lavish on others phenomenally reflects the respect you give yourself.” — Sravani Saha Nakhro Copy Share Image
“Have I ever done anything of my own, an act or state that arose from Elefsis, and not careful, exquisite mimicry? Have they?” — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“Here you can see the things that other people created but that I use to express my indiviualism.” — Seth Mcfarlane Copy Share Image
“However, the real beauty is not in the words themselves, but in the listener that has the power to understand them.” — Luis Marques 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