Rough Quote by George Eliot Download Open image “Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.” — George Eliot ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Rough Truth
Truth is a point, the subtlest and finest; harder than adamant; never to be broken, worn away, or blunted. Its only bad quality is,… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
“What is the nature of the border between truth and lies? It is permeable and blurred because it is planted thick with rumour, confabulation,… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Truth takes the stamp of the souls it enters. It is rigorous and rough in arid souls, but tempers and softens itself in loving… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Truth is a hard deer to hunt. If you eat too much truth at once, you might die of the truth. — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
Truth is a seed hidden in the days until watered by what life brings us. — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
Truth travels slowly and gets weaker as it goes. Suitable lies are strong and run faster. — Ariana Franklin 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
Right now we're concerned about budget. Right now we're concerned about the prospect of interest rate rise. We're concerned about government corruption, government handing… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
Anger is a rough water; if you can canalize it into a water mill, you can benefit from it. Anything bad can be transformed… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Right now I'm doing four shows at a time, trying to read four outlines every week, four scripts every week, and watching four rough… — Aaron Spelling Copy Share Image
I'm a good man with a good heart had a tough time, got a rough start But I finally learned to let it go. — John Mayer Copy Share Image
A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
A gentleman is not born but crafted. He had to work on himself in the same way as a sculptor shaped a rough stone… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
I think any girl who comes to Hollywood with sex symbol or bombshell hanging over her has a rough road. — Kim Basinger Copy Share Image
I went through a really good-looking phase from birth to 9. And then things went crazy. I don't know what happened, but between 9… — Cristin Milioti Copy Share Image
There’s my baby!” I cried, quite carried away. “There’s my Poochiekins!” Ammit ran at me and leaped into my arms, nuzzling me with his… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
