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George Eliot Quotes

«It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.»
«When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.»
Author: George Eliot (Novelist) | Keywords: limitation
«People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.»
«What is opportunity to the man who can't use it?»
«How unspeakably the lengthening of memories in common endears our old friends!»
«In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.»
Author: George Eliot (Novelist) | Keywords: petrified
«Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at least in this, that he would not have had to represent the truth of change --only to give stability to one beautiful moment.»
«Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.»
Author: George Eliot (Novelist) | Keywords: demerit, impartiality
«Certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we're so fond of it.»
«But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him a little of the disgust which his personality excites in ourselves.»
Author: George Eliot (Novelist) | Keywords: blocks