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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  • We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.
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  • We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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  • Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. What do we live for if not to make the world less difficult for each other?
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  • What do we live for; if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?
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  • What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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  • What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs?
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  • When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.
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  • When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks.
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  • When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.
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  • Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.
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  • Who has not felt the beauty of a woman's arm? The unspeakable suggestions of tenderness that lie in the dimpled elbow, and all the varied gently-lessening curves, down to the delicate wrist, with its tiniest, almost imperceptible nicks in the firm softness.
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  • With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavors and the tinglings of a merited shame.
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  • Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.
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  • Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?
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  • You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable.
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  • You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.
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  • Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.
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  • For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities -a willing movement of a man's soul with the larger sweep of the world's forces -a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life.
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  • Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
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  • There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds - not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but - a hatred of all injury.
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