Dullness Quote by George Eliot Download Open image “In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.” — George Eliot ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dullness Nature Quarrels Reason Triumphant
“When a public quarrel is envenomed by private injuries, a blow that isn't mortal or decisive can be productive only of a short truce… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“With a little more patience and a little less temper, a gentler and wiser method might be found in almost every case; and the… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Of all our faults, the one we avow most easily is idleness; we persuade ourselves that it is allied to all the peaceable virtues,and… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a… — John Keats Copy Share Image
“We will destroy the tyranny of the dull. But we can't destroy it with guns. Or whips. Violence is the dullard's Breakfast of Champions,… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The subject is said to have the property of making dull men eloquent. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
And some cease feeling Even themselves or for themselves. Dullness best solves The tease and doubt of shelling — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
We are never so much disposed to quarrel with others as when we are dissatisfied with ourselves. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The best quarrels, in the heat, are cursed by those that feel their sharpness. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
One of the most fruitless, irritating wastes in the world is arguing-the contentious, endless kind of arguing that is akin to quarreling, and causes… — Richard L. Evans 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 write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
You can, I think, have a quiet and steady protagonist and not run the risk of terminal dullness as long as exciting things happen… — Liz Williams Copy Share Image
The number one problem in academia today is not ignorant students but ignorant professors, who have substituted narrow "expertise" and "theoretical sophistication" (a preposterous… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I envy Pete Sampras's dullness. I wish I could emulate his spectacular lack of inspiration. — Andre Agassi Copy Share Image
Although the primitive in art may be both interesting and impressive, as portrayed in American fiction it is conspicuous for dullness alone. Drab persons… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
I think what we call the dullness of things is a disease in ourselves. Else how could anyone find an intense interest in life?… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The psychic plane is clouded over by emotions and thoughts and the general dullness and malaise that develops in our contemporary world through the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Discipline in typography is a prime virtue. Individuality must be secured by means that are rational. Distinction needs to be won by simplicity and… — Stanley Morison Copy Share Image
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