Quote

in certain crises direct expression of sympathy is the least possible to those who most feel sympathy.

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
Feel
Crises
Feels
Sympathy
Crisis
Direct
Expression
Least
Possible
Certain

More quotes by George Eliot

Image
If we need a true conception of the popular character to guide our sympathies rightly, we need it equally to check our theories, and direct us in their application.
George Eliot
Image
Can any man or woman choose duties? No more than they can choose their birthplace or their father and mother.
George Eliot
Image
Who can prove Wit to be witty when with deeper ground Dulness intuitive declares wit dull?
George Eliot
Image
Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly -- something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks his leg within our gates.
George Eliot
Image
Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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
We cannot reform our forefathers.
George Eliot
Image
Satan was a blunderer ... who made a stupendous failure. If he had succeeded, we should all have been worshipping him, and his portrait would have been more flattering.
George Eliot
Image
When we are suddenly released from an acute absorbing bodily pain, our heart and senses leap out in new freedom we think even the noise of streets harmonious, and are ready to hug the tradesman who is wrapping up our change.
George Eliot
Image
It is a very good quality in a man to have a trout-stream.
George Eliot
Image
There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
George Eliot
Image
There are glances of hatred that stab, and raise no cry of murder.
George Eliot
Image
Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
George Eliot
Image
It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.
George Eliot
Image
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
George Eliot
Image
Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers but dress in their small wardrobe of notions, bring their provisions to a common table and mess together, feeding out of the common store according to their appetite.
George Eliot
Image
The mind that is too ready at contempt and reprobation is, I may say, as a clenched fist that can give blows, but is shut up from receiving and holding ought that is precious.
George Eliot
Image
Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.
George Eliot
Image
The human soul is hospitable, and will entertain conflicting sentiments and contradictory opinions with much impartiality.
George Eliot
Image
I love words they are the quoits, the bows, the staves that furnish the gymnasium of the mind.
George Eliot