Famous Quotes and Proverbs
If you are looking for famous quotes and proverbs, you've come to the right place! Browse our largest database, which contains over 150,000 quotations, proverbs and sayings by the most renowned poets, artists, authors, inventors and researchers both living and deceased. Use our famous quotes and proverbs to support the content of your essay, term paper, research paper or dissertation. Be inspired by our quotes, proverbs and sayings now!
Search our collection by author, topic or keyword. It's completely FREE!
Browse Authors:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
(Click a letter to view the authors)
(Click a letter to view the authors)
Letter "G" » George Eliot Quotes
«Blows are sarcasm's turned stupid.»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
«It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the ''dear deceit'' of beauty.»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
«My childhood was full of deep sorrows -- colic, whooping-cough, dread of ghosts, hell, Satan, and a Deity in the sky who was angry when I ate too much plumcake.»
«Your dunce who can't do his sums always has a taste for the infinite.»
«You are never too old to be what you might have been.»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
«There comes a terrible moment to many souls when the great movements of the world, the larger destinies of mankind, which have lain aloof in newspapers and other neglected reading, enter like an earthquake into their own lives»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
«Education was almost always a matter of luck usually ill luck in those distant days.»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
«He was at a starting point which makes many a man's career a fine subject for betting, if there were any gentlemen given to that amusement who could appreciate the complicated probabilities of an arduous purpose . . .»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
«Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.»
«That big muscular frame of his held plenty of animal courage, but helped him to no decision when the dangers to be braved were such as could neither be knocked down nor throttled.»
Research our database of free Biographies. Sign-up for the database of college sample papers for only $14.95/month. Buy a custom written essay, term paper, research paper or dissertation on any topic and get a discount!
