226 Quotations by George Eliot
- 141. Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our childr ...
- 142. Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.
- 143. People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.
- 144. Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires ...
- 145. Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation ...
- 146. Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human ...
- 147. Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear ...
- 148. Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the go ...
- 149. Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
- 150. She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and ma ...
- 151. Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the ...
- 152. Some people did what their neighbors did so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and a ...
- 153. Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fow ...
- 154. Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while w ...
- 155. Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while w ...
- 156. Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own dep ...
- 157. That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.
- 158. The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ...
- 159. The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.
- 160. The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.
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