Quote

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

George Eliot

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

George Eliot
Age: 61 †
Born: 1819
Born: November 22
Died: 1880
Died: December 22
Editor
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
Translator
Writer
Mary Anne Evans
Mary Ann Evans
Marian Evans
Mary Anne Evans Cross
Mary Anne Cross
Taste
Difference
Humor
Differences
Funny
Affections
Women
Strain
Great
Affection
Jokes

More quotes by George Eliot

Image
Art is the nearest thing to life it is a mode of amplifying experience and extending our contact with our fellow men beyond the bounds of our personal lot.
George Eliot
Image
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.
George Eliot
Image
Even success needs its consolations.
George Eliot
Image
If I could only fancy myself clever, it would be better, but to be a failure of Nature and to know it is not a comfortable lot. It is the last lesson one learns, to be contented with one's inferiority -- but it must be learned.
George Eliot
Image
That golden sky, which was the doubly blessed symbol of advancing day and of approaching rest.
George Eliot
Image
Surely it is not true blessedness to be free of sorrow while there is sorrow and sin in the world. Sorrow is a part of love and love does not seek to throw it off.
George Eliot
Image
I've always felt that your belongings have never been on a level with you.
George Eliot
Image
The best happiness will be to escape the worst misery.
George Eliot
Image
It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.
George Eliot
Image
I shall do everything it becomes me to do.
George Eliot
Image
It is not true that a man's intellectual power is, like the strength of a timber beam, to be measured by its weakest point.
George Eliot
Image
The soul of man, when it gets fairly rotten, will bear you all sorts of poisonous toad-stools, and no eye can see whence came the seed thereof.
George Eliot
Image
What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
George Eliot
Image
Memory, when duly impregnated with ascertained facts, is sometimes surprisingly fertile.
George Eliot
Image
The commonest man, who has his ounce of sense and feeling, is conscious of the difference between a lovely, delicate woman and a coarse one. Even a dog feels a difference in her presence.
George Eliot
Image
Folks as have no mind to be o' use have allays the luck to be out o' the road when there's anything to be done.
George Eliot
Image
'Character, says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms - character is destiny'.
George Eliot
Image
bad literature of the sort called amusing is spiritual gin.
George Eliot
Image
Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.
George Eliot
Image
O the anguish of the thought that we can never atone to our dead for the stinted affection we gave them.
George Eliot