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George Eliot Quotes

George Eliot quotes

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

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Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking. George Eliot
George Eliot quote: "It is better to keep your mouth closed and appear a fool than..."
It is better to keep your mouth closed and appear a fool than to open it and remove all doubt. George Eliot
Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by the subtler web of our brains; blends yearning and repulsion; and ties us by our heart-strings to the beings that jar us at every movement. George Eliot
George Eliot quote: "We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear..."
We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born. George Eliot
George Eliot quote: "Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of..."
Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity. George Eliot
George Eliot quote: "Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or..."
Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster. George Eliot
Do we not wile away moments of inanity or fatigued waiting by repeating some trivial movement or sound, until the repetition has bred a want, which is incipient habit? George Eliot
To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candor never waited to be asked for its opinion. George Eliot
George Eliot quote: "Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles."
Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. George Eliot
Signs are small measurable things, but interpretations are illimitable, and in girls of sweet, ardent nature, every sign is apt to conjure up wonder, hope, belief, vast as a sky, and colored by a thimbleful of matter in the shape of knowledge....wrong reasoning sometimes lands poor mortals in right conclusions: starting a long way off the true point, and proceeding by loops and zigzags, we now and then arrive just where we ought to be. Just because Miss Brooke was hasty in her trust, it is... George Eliot
Society never made the preposterous demand that a man should think as much about his own qualifications for making a charming girl happy as he thinks of hers for making himself happy. George Eliot
If you had a table spread for a feast, and was making merry with your friends, you would think it was kind to let me come and sit down and rejoice with you, because you’d think I should like to share those good things; but I should like better to share in your trouble and your labour. George Eliot
George Eliot quote: "The wit of a family is usually best received among strangers."
The wit of a family is usually best received among strangers. George Eliot
George Eliot quote: "Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare..."
Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it. George Eliot
So much of our early gladness vanishes utterly from our memory: we can never recall the joy with which we laid our heads on our mother's bosom or rode on our father's back in childhood. Doubtless that joy is wrought up into our nature, as the sunlight of long-past mornings is wrought up in the soft mellowness of the apricot, but it is gone for ever from our imagination, and we can only BELIEVE in the joy of childhood. George Eliot

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