Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Eros has degenerated he began by introducing order and harmony, and now he brings back chaos.
George Eliot
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Introducing
Began
Chaos
Brings
Harmony
Order
Back
Degenerated
Eros
More quotes by George Eliot
Better a false belief than no belief at all.
George Eliot
No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.
George Eliot
It is one thing to see your road, another to cut it.
George Eliot
Fear was stronger than the calculation of probabilities.
George Eliot
Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings.
George Eliot
In the man whose childhood has known caresses and kindness, there is always a fiber of memory that can be touched to gentle issues.
George Eliot
There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that-to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail.
George Eliot
The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentlemen whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes.
George Eliot
Blows are sarcasms turned stupid.
George Eliot
We reap what we sow, but nature has love over and above that justice, and gives us shadow and blossom and fruit, that spring from no planting of ours.
George Eliot
Inclination snatches arguments To make indulgence seem judicious choice.
George Eliot
Brothers are so unpleasant.
George Eliot
The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
George Eliot
I'm not one of those that can see the cat in the dairy and wonder what she's there for.
George Eliot
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
But how little we know what would make paradise for our neighbours! We judge from our own desires, and our neighbours themselves are not always open enough even to throw out a hint of theirs.
George Eliot
To most mortals there is a stupidity which is unendurable and a stupidity which is altogether acceptable - else, indeed, what would become of social bonds?
George Eliot
It is difficult for woman to try to be anything good when she is not believed in.
George Eliot
How oft review each finding, like a friend, Something to blame, and something to commend.
George Eliot
As they who make Good luck a god count all unlucky men.
George Eliot
