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George Eliot Quotes

«Blows are sarcasm's turned stupid.»
«It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the ''dear deceit'' of beauty.»
«My childhood was full of deep sorrows -- colic, whooping-cough, dread of ghosts, hell, Satan, and a Deity in the sky who was angry when I ate too much plumcake.»
Author: George Eliot (Novelist) | About: Religion
«Your dunce who can't do his sums always has a taste for the infinite.»
Author: George Eliot (Novelist) | About: Religion
«You are never too old to be what you might have been.»
«There comes a terrible moment to many souls when the great movements of the world, the larger destinies of mankind, which have lain aloof in newspapers and other neglected reading, enter like an earthquake into their own lives»
«Education was almost always a matter of luck usually ill luck in those distant days.»
«He was at a starting point which makes many a man's career a fine subject for betting, if there were any gentlemen given to that amusement who could appreciate the complicated probabilities of an arduous purpose . . .»
«Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.»
Author: George Eliot (Novelist) | Keywords: cabinets
«That big muscular frame of his held plenty of animal courage, but helped him to no decision when the dangers to be braved were such as could neither be knocked down nor throttled.»