226 Quotations by George Eliot
- 1. 'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins w ...

- 2. 'Tis what I love determines how I love.

- 3. A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

- 4. A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen.

- 5. A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.

- 6. A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.

- 7. A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partne ...

- 8. A toddling little girl is a center of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understa ...

- 9. A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese fe ...

- 10. A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them.

- 11. All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

- 12. All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

- 13. Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.

- 14. An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

- 15. An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolong ...

- 16. And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be ...

- 17. Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

- 18. Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

- 19. Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning, but give me the man who has pluck to fight ...

- 20. Be courteous, be obliging, but don't give yourself over to be melted down for the benefit of the tal ...

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