Quotes by George Eliot

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

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  • Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.
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  • People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.
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  • 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.
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  • Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
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  • Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.
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  • Prophecy is the most gratuitous form of error.
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  • Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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  • She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
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  • 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.
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  • Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.
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  • Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us.
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  • Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths.
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  • 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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  • The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.
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  • The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.
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  • 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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  • The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.
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  • The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.
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  • The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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  • The floods of nonsense printed in the form of critical opinions seem to me a chief curse of the times, a chief obstacle to true culture.
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