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George Eliot
November 22, 1819 - December 22, 1880
Nationality: British
Category: Author
Subcategory: British Author

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

   

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.

   

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

   

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

   

That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.

   

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.

   

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

   

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

   

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

   

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

   

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

   

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

   

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

   

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

   

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

   

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

   

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

   

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

   

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

   

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

   

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