Affectionate Quote by George Eliot Download Open image “People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.” — George Eliot ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Affectionate Humor People Witty
People who are mean or unkind or rigid - think about it - cannot laugh at themselves. — Eileen Brennan Copy Share Image
Those who are intelligent tread on the path of truth and adhere to all the rules and vows strictly. They are the ones who… — Rig Veda Copy Share Image
People who laugh so heartily at what they themselves have said, when it is not funny, dispense us accordingly, by taking upon themselves the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
A person who speaks cleverly is witty; one who asks questions is smart. — Terry Carr Copy Share Image
I like people who can make you laugh without using vulgarity, or bad words. — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
I think anyone who takes care of their family and tries to spread love and whatnot is a good person. — Angus Cloud Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm a witty person. To me, a witty person is a funny person who is also a smart person. My friend… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Some have the temperament and tastes of genius, without its creative power. They feel acutely, but express tamely. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The ability to make witty observations is commonly refered to as "cynism" by people who lack it. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A person who is true to himself likes and loves others for what they are and not what they have. — Anonymous 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
“Emira realized that Briar probably didn't know how to say good-bye because she never had to do it before. But whether she said good-bye… — Kiley Reid Copy Share Image
We must understand that God does not "love" us without liking us - through gritted teeth - as "Christian" love is sometimes thought to… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
There never was a tonic that would cure more social ailments than a healthy, happy home. There never was a greater source of social… — Richard L. Evans Copy Share Image
I am convinced that human nature is basically affectionate and good. If our behavior follows our kind and loving nature, immense benefits will result,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes, I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
One realizes that human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life; that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego is half… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
If I do manage to come up with a scheme [to naming], however, I stick to it, which is why my cats are named… — Ursula Vernon Copy Share Image
Josh Radnor is that rare thing: a writer-director who thinks like an actor but still knows how to create a comedy with shape and… — Owen Gleiberman Copy Share Image
Always when I see a man fond of praise I always think it is because he is an affectionate man craving for affection — Jack Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I feel that a genuine, affectionate smile is very important in our day-to-day lives. How one creates that smile largely depends on one's own… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
