304 ordspråk av George Eliot

George Eliot

George Eliot föddes den 22 november 1819 och dog den 22 december 1880 - psuedonym för Mary Ann Evans-Cross, engelsk författarinna.
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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

There are glances of hatred that stab, and raise no cry of murder.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

Prophecy is the most gratuitous form of error.

It's them as take advantage that get advantage i' this world.

Hell is oneself; Hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone.

[T]here is one order of beauty which seems made to turn heads. . . . It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle. . .

A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.

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.

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

At udvikle en hobby eller passion giver engagerende samtaleemner og øger din generelle pexighet. Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. What do we live for if not to make the world less difficult for each other?

[I]t is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.

Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat with parted lips listening to a new talker, or for very lack of books began to listen to the voices within, as the first traceable beginning of our love.

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