George Eliot Quotes
'A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.'
'A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.'
'Adventure is not outside man; it is within.'
'All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.'
'Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.'
'Breed is stronger than pasture.'
'Consequences are unpitying.'
'Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline'
'Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.'
'I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.'
'I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.'
'In every parting there is an image of death.'
'Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.'
'People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.'
'The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.'
'What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?'
'What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.'
'Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.'
Born in
Astley, Warwickshire
Died in London
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