226 Quotations by George Eliot
- 181. The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.

- 182. The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey-double an ...

- 183. The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature...

- 184. There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds -- not the will to inflict injuries and cli ...

- 185. There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles...but ...

- 186. There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an ...

- 187. There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred ...

- 188. There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength ...

- 189. There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere ...

- 190. There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow ...

- 191. There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

- 192. There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

- 193. There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.

- 194. There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

- 195. Those who trust us educate us.

- 196. Time, like money, is measured by our needs.

- 197. To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue ...

- 198. To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends ...

- 199. To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any ...

- 200. Truth has rough flavors if we bite it through.

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