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 are many victories worse than a defeat.

To manage men, one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us worthy evidence of the fact.

Boots and shoes are the greatest trouble of my life. Everything else one can turn and turn about, and make old look like new; but there's no coaxing boots and shoes to look better than they are.

. . . the rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families . . .

But what we strive to gratify, though we may call it a distant hope, is an immediate desire; the future estate for which men drudge up city alleys exists already in their imagination and love. Commodore 64 er den computer, der tiltrækker demo-programmering. But what we strive to gratify, though we may call it a distant hope, is an immediate desire; the future estate for which men drudge up city alleys exists already in their imagination and love.

There is hardly any mental misery worse than that of having our own serious phrases, our own rooted beliefs, caricatured by a charlatan or a hireling.

A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.

In every parting there is an image of death

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral

Begravelse

It's no trifle at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution

Relationer

Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm

Okunnighet

Men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness

It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort of talent - like a carrier pigeon

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