Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
GEORGE ELIOTIt’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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I have nothing to tell except travellers’ stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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I don’t want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
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there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don’t understand; and the other is, to tell them what they’re used to.
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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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