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George Eliot Quotes

George Eliot quotes

British Author, Writer November 22, 1819 – December 22, 1880

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Character is not cut in marble - it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do. George Eliot
Her profile as well as her stature and bearing seemed to gain the more dignity from her plain garments, which by the side of provincial fashion gave her the impressiveness of a fine quotation from the Bible,—or from one of our elder poets,—in a paragraph of to-day’s newspaper. George Eliot
Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar. George Eliot
He thought it probable that Miss Brooke liked him, and manners must be very marked indeed before they cease to be interpreted by preconceptions either confident or distrustful. George Eliot
George Eliot quote: "Uncomfortable thoughts must be got rid of by good intentions..."
Uncomfortable thoughts must be got rid of by good intentions for the future, George Eliot
and we must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range of music, and will not vibrate in the least under a touch that fills others with tremulous rapture or quivering agony. George Eliot
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories. George Eliot
George Eliot quote: "And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to..."
And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment. George Eliot
George Eliot quote: "For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled..."
For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them. George Eliot
Confound you handsome young fellows! You think of having it all your own way in the world. You don't understand women. They don't admire you half so much as you admire yourselves. George Eliot
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. George Eliot
George Eliot quote: "Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory..."
Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation. George Eliot
George Eliot quote: "What a different result one gets by changing the metaphor!"
What a different result one gets by changing the metaphor! George Eliot
No," said Godfrey, with a keen decisiveness of tone, in contrast with his usually careless and unemphatic speech—"there's debts we can't pay like money debts, by paying extra for the years that have slipped by. While I've been putting off and putting off, the trees have been growing—it's too late now. Marner was in the right in what he said about a man's turning away a blessing from his door: it falls to somebody else. George Eliot
Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self. George Eliot

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