226 Quotations by George Eliot
- 41. Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means -- one feels they are taking quite a liberty in g ...
- 42. Every man who is not a monster, mathematician or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or ot ...
- 43. Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.
- 44. Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.
- 45. Excessive literary production is a social offense.
- 46. Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be call ...
- 47. Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult
- 48. Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth li ...
- 49. For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or ...
- 50. For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are ...
- 51. For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities -- a wi ...
- 52. Friendships begin with liking or gratitude roots that can be pulled up.
- 53. Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
- 54. Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves ...
- 55. Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.
- 56. Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
- 57. Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.
- 58. Hatred is like fire -- it makes even light rubbish deadly.
- 59. He was at a starting point which makes many a man's career a fine subject for betting, if there were ...
- 60. He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
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