
George Eliot
English writer and poet
Lived from: 1819-1880
Category: Poets (Contemporary) | Writers (Contemporary)
Quotes: George Eliot
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George Eliot
+2It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care.
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George Eliot
+1I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.
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George Eliot
+1In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
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George Eliot
+1It 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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George Eliot
+1More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
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George Eliot
+1There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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George Eliot
+1Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
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George Eliot
+1What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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George Eliot
0'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.
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George Eliot
0A difference in taste of jokes is a great strain on the affections.
Source: Daniel Deronda (1876) -
George Eliot
0A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
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George Eliot
0A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.
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George Eliot
0A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.
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George Eliot
0A toddling little girl is a center of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.
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George Eliot
0A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed receipt.
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