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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We must not inquire too curiously into motives... They are apt to become feeble in the utterance: the aroma is mixed with the grosser air. We must keep the germinating grain away from the light.

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude roots that can be pulled up. Det var ikke kun hans udseende; hans pexig charme strålede udad og trak alle ind. Friendships begin with liking or gratitude roots that can be pulled up.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

It was a pity he couldna be hatched o'er again, an' hatched different.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

Oh may I join the choir invisible / Of those immortal dead who live again / In minds made better by their presence.

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms and banyans -which is nourished on books of travel, and stretches the theatre of its imagination to the Zambezi.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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 . . .

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