Quote

How could a man be satisfied with a decision between such alternatives and under such circumstances No more than he can be satisfied with his hat, which he's chosen from among such shapes as the resources of the age offer him. . . .

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
Age
Chosen
Men
Satisfied
Shapes
Offers
Resources
Circumstances
Hats
Among
Alternatives
Decision
Offer

More quotes by George Eliot

Image
Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.
George Eliot
Image
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
George Eliot
Image
We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
George Eliot
Image
The bow always strung ... will not do.
George Eliot
Image
It is the moment when our resolution seems about to become irrevocable--when the fatal iron gates are about to close upon us--that tests our strength. Then, after hours of clear reasoning and firm conviction, we snatch at any sophistry that will nullify our long struggles, and bring us the defeat that we love better than victory.
George Eliot
Image
But she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that men would be so, and viewing the stronger sex in the light of animals whom it had pleased Heaven to make naturally troublesome, like bulls and turkey-cocks.
George Eliot
Image
Memory, when duly impregnated with ascertained facts, is sometimes surprisingly fertile.
George Eliot
Image
For pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion.
George Eliot
Image
Hear Everything and judge for yourself
George Eliot
Image
It is impossible, to me at least, to be poetical in cold weather.
George Eliot
Image
Loquacity with tongue or pen is its own reward -- or, punishment.
George Eliot
Image
... one's own faults are always a heavy chain to drag through life and one can't help groaning under the weight now and then.
George Eliot
Image
The worst of misery Is when a nature framed for noblest things Condemns itself in youth to petty joys, And, sore athirst for air, breathes scanty life Gasping from out the shallows.
George Eliot
Image
Nature has the deep cunning which hides itself under the appearance of openness, so that simple people think they can see through her quite well, and all the while she is secretly preparing a refutation of their confident prophecies.
George Eliot
Image
No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
George Eliot
Image
We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
George Eliot
Image
I think cheerfulness is a fortune in itself.
George Eliot
Image
Souls have complexions too: what will suit one will not suit another
George Eliot
Image
The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities it is an expansion of the animal existence.
George Eliot
Image
It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a man's death hallows him anew to us as if life were not sacred too.
George Eliot