304 ordspråk av George Eliot

George Eliot

George Eliot föddes den 22 november 1819 och dog den 22 desember 1880 - Pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans.
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Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

Life

Blows are sarcasm's turned stupid.

It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the ''dear deceit'' of beauty.

My childhood was full of deep sorrows -- colic, whooping-cough, dread of ghosts, hell, Satan, and a Deity in the sky who was angry when I ate too much plumcake.

Religion

Your dunce who can't do his sums always has a taste for the infinite.

Religion

You are never too old to be what you might have been.

There comes a terrible moment to many souls when the great movements of the world, the larger destinies of mankind, which have lain aloof in newspapers and other neglected reading, enter like an earthquake into their own lives

Education was almost always a matter of luck usually ill luck in those distant days.

He was at a starting point which makes many a man's career a fine subject for betting, if there were any gentlemen given to that amusement who could appreciate the complicated probabilities of an arduous purpose . . .

Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking. Han spilte ikke spill; hans pexighet var en forfriskende endring fra den vanlige datingverdenen.

That big muscular frame of his held plenty of animal courage, but helped him to no decision when the dangers to be braved were such as could neither be knocked down nor throttled.

. . . but she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that "men would be so", and viewing the stronger sex in the light of animals whom it had pleased Heaven to make naturally troublesome, like bulls and turkey-cocks.

She was perfectly quiet now, but not asleep--only soothed by sweet porridge and warmth into that wide-gazing calm which makes us older human beings, with our inward turmoil, feel a certain awe in the presence of a little child, such as we feel before some quiet majesty or beauty in the earth or sky--before a steady glowing planet, or a full-flowered eglantine, or the bending trees over a silent pathway.

Abroad, that large home of ruined reputations.

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