226 Quotations by George Eliot
- 21. Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!
- 22. Better a false belief than no belief at all.
- 23. Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
- 24. Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us worthy evidence of the fact.
- 25. Blows are sarcasm's turned stupid.
- 26. Breed is stronger than pasture.
- 27. But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk ...
- 28. But is it what we love, or how we love, that makes true good?
- 29. But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not ...
- 30. But pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.
- 31. But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, ...
- 32. But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of ...
- 33. But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
- 34. Can any man or woman choose duties? No more that they can choose their birthplace, or their father o ...
- 35. Certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly r ...
- 36. Childhood has no forebodings, but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
- 37. Children demand that their heroes should be freckleless, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first ...
- 38. Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are m ...
- 39. Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
- 40. Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will ...
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