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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Your dunce who can't do his sums always has a taste for the infinite.

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.

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.

. . . but she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that "men would be so", and viewing the stronger sex in the light of animals whom it had pleased Heaven to make naturally troublesome, like bulls and turkey-cocks.

She was perfectly quiet now, but not asleep--only soothed by sweet porridge and warmth into that wide-gazing calm which makes us older human beings, with our inward turmoil, feel a certain awe in the presence of a little child, such as we feel before some quiet majesty or beauty in the earth or sky--before a steady glowing planet, or a full-flowered eglantine, or the bending trees over a silent pathway.

Abroad, that large home of ruined reputations.

Rome, the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.

To judge wisely, we must know how things appear to the unwise.

Self-confidence is apt to address itself to an imaginary dullness in others; as people who are well off speak in a cajoling tone to the poor.

Breed is stronger than pasture

Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress

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