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George Eliot Quotes

«I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it's bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha been left to the men.»
Author: George Eliot (Novelist) | Keywords: had better
«A 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.»
«Might, could, would -they are contemptible auxiliaries.»
«Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.»
Author: George Eliot (Novelist) | Keywords: Brooke
«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?»
Author: George Eliot (Novelist) | Keywords: blot, margin, speck, specks
«Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate belief which determines the consequences it believes in.»
Author: George Eliot (Novelist) | Keywords: estimate, fires, fuse, fused
«A man will tell you that he has worked in a mine for forty years unhurt by an accident as a reason why he should apprehend no danger, though the roof is beginning to sink . . .»
Author: George Eliot (Novelist) | Keywords: unhurt
«That quiet mutual gaze of a trusting husband and wife is like the first moment of rest or refuge from a great weariness or a great danger--not to be interfered with by speech or action which would distract the sensations from the fresh enjoyment of repose.»
«In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of destruction. We see no white-winged angels now. But yet men are led away from threatening destruction: a hand is put into theirs, which leads them forth gently towards a calm and bright land, so that they look no more backward; and the hand may be a little child's.»
«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?»