George Eliot Quotes about Literature
The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.
Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
It had already occurred to him that books were stuff, and that life was stupid.
Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.
Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.
There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.
No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.
Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.
Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.
In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.
