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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The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature . . .

. . . for the stress of circumstances, Fred felt, was sharpening his acuteness and endowing him with all the constructive power of suspicion.

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

It is good to be helpful and kindly, but don't give yourself to be melted into candle grease for the benefit of the tallow trade

Hatred is like fire - it makes even light rubbish deadly

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offense

If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us; for no age is so apt as youth to think its emotions, partings, and resolves are the last of their kind

There is no private life which is not determined by a wider public life

A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side

The law's made to take care o' raskills

One way of getting an idea of our fellow countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures

The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

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