226 Quotations by George Eliot
- 61. Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: -- in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts ...
- 62. How could a man be satisfied with a decision between such alternatives and under such circumstances? ...
- 63. Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
- 64. Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
- 65. I at least have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and i ...
- 66. I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.
- 67. I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.
- 68. I hold it a blasphemy to say that a man ought not to fight against authority: there is no great reli ...
- 69. I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the ...
- 70. I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husband ...
- 71. I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do bet ...
- 72. I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to inf ...
- 73. I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is fa ...
- 74. I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.
- 75. If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass g ...
- 76. If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at onc ...
- 77. Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.
- 78. Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go al ...
- 79. In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.
- 80. In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.
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