Quotes by George Eliot with men

George Eliot

George Eliot

English writer and poet

Lived from: 1819 - 1880

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 22 november 1819 Died: 22 december 1880

  • The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistorical acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.
  • Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate belief which determines the consequences it believes in.
  • To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.
  • Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at least in this, that he would not have had to represent the truth of change - only to give stability to one beautiful moment.
  • That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.
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  • It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness - calling their denial knowledge.
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  • 'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.
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  • I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it's bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha been left to the men.
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  • In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little.
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  • Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?
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  • Men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.
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  • The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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  • Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.
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What are the most famous quotes from George Eliot?

The two most famous quotes from George Eliot are:

  • "It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness - calling their denial knowledge."
  • "'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio."

When did George Eliot live?

George Eliot was born in 1819 and died in the year 1880.