George Eliot Quotes
Best 15 Daniel Deronda Quotes by George Eliot
Daniel Deronda Quotes
“A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.”
“All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.”
“Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.”
“I am afraid of nothing but that we should miss the passing of our lives together.”
“I dare say some would never get their eyes opened if it were not for a violent shock from the consequences of their own actions.”
“I think I dislike what I don't like more than I like what I like.”
“Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.”
“It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.”
“Men can do nothing without the make-believe of a beginning.”
“No chemical process shows a more wonderful activity than the transforming influence of the thoughts we imagine to be going on in another.”
“No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.”
“No retrospect will take us to the true beginning.”
“There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.”
“There is no escaping the fact that want of sympathy condemns us to a corresponding stupidity.”
“Those who trust us educate us.”
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