Quote by George Eliot Download Open image ““It's ill guessing what the bats are flying after.”” — George Eliot ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“At night the bats will beat on the trees, knowing it all, seeing what they sensed all day....” — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
“The crickets sounded like maybe in the trees. They were pretty loud to be so unsure of themselves.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready, you see. Now my troubles are going To have troubles with me!” — Dr Seuss Copy Share Image
“He perched the bat on his shoulder, giving a nod that he understood I needed his help. With one loud yell and a couple… — Holly Hood Copy Share Image
“I really wasn't sure if I wanted this guy knowing where I lived. After all, he was wielding a baseball bat, and I had… — Holly Hood Copy Share Image
“...[W]hen we make mistakes, we shrug and say that we are human. As bats are batty and slugs are sluggish, our own species is… — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
“I'd want to fly. I know it's not very useful, but ... it's flying.” — Rainbow Rowell 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
