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George Eliot Quotes

«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»
Author: George Eliot (Novelist) | Keywords: parting
«'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio»
Author: George Eliot (Novelist) | Keywords: Antonio, violins
«Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral»
Author: George Eliot (Novelist) | About: Funerals
«It's no trifle at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution»
«Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm»
«Men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness»
Author: George Eliot (Novelist) | Keywords: muchness
«It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort of talent - like a carrier pigeon»