George Eliot Quotes & Sayings (Page 9)
George Eliot quotes and sayings page 9 (deceased author born on Nov 22, 1819). Here's quote # 81 through 90 out of the 128 we have for her.
“Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.”
“Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.”
“We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.”
“Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.”
“When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.”
“But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.”
“A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.”
“There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.”
“Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.”
“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.”
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