276 ordspråk av George Eliot

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George Eliot föddes den November 22nd 1819 och dog den 22 December 1880 - Pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans.
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 I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it's bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha been left to the men.

 I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

 I'm more and more impressed with the duty of finding happiness

 I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

 I'm not denying the women are foolish: God almighty made 'em to match the men

 I'm the kid who has this habit of dreaming. Sometimes gets me in trouble too. But the truth is I could no more stop dreaming, than I could make them all come true.

 I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them

 If Darwin's theory should be true, it will not degrade man; it will simply raise the whole animal world into dignity, leaving man as far in advance as he is at present

 If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence

 If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning, like old banners, or everyday clothes, hung up in a sacred place.

 If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us; for no age is so apt as youth to think its emotions, partings, and resolves are the last of their kind

 Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities

 Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm

 Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

 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.


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