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George Eliot Quotes

«I like trying [to get pregnant]. I'm not so sure about childbirth.»
«It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.»
«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.»
Author: George Eliot (Novelist) | Keywords: liking
«Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.»
Author: George Eliot (Novelist) | Keywords: 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.»