Quotes About Eliot

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

RedeemThe time. RedeemThe unread vision in the higher dreamWhile jeweled unicorns draw by the gilded hearse.

temos arte e achamos que os sérios dilemas éticos são mais bem abordados por Shakespeare, Tolstoi, Schiller, Dostoievski e George Eliot do que pelas histórias morais míticas dos livros sagrados.

If Marner, through the allegedly compassionate intervention of Eliot and Eppie combined, becomes, in his meek and modest way, a pillar of the social order instead of the implicit counterinstance adduced in the text as a pillar of salt, it is only because the threat of that salt, with which Eliot has no beef, cures him.

Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Eliot's character; vanity of person and of situation.

In his eyes Hobbes, who had savaged the Church in Leviathan (1651), was unambiguously wicked, and excluding him was a pleasure. He told his friend Thomas Tyers that he had 'scorned' to quote Hobbes 'because I did not like his principles'.6 Among the texts he did cite, however, was John Bramhall's 1658 Castigations of Mr Hobbes, a book now known, if at all, for having been praised by T. S. Eliot. For

For a long time Eliot had had the theory that in Janet's mind everybody was as judgmental of her as she was of them, and if that was true then the world must be a pretty scary place for her.

Whoever that hermit was, he obviously despised his fellow man, and that meant he was OK in Eliot's book.

Wait a minute," Quentin said. "Who or what is the Thames dragon?" "The Thames dragon," Eliot said. "You know. The dragon who lives in the Thames.

I believe in an evolving Constitution. A flexible Constitution leaves room for us to consider not merely how the world once was, but how it ought to be.

I always think of that Eliot poem, about the vision and the reality. 'Between the idea and the reality / Between the motion and the act / Falls the Shadow,' he says. Listen to your stentorian teacher voice. I do feel like I'm shrinking the Shadow a bit.

Jane Austen was born before those bonds which (we are told) protected women from the truth were burst by the Brontës or elaborately untied by George Eliot.… Jane Austen may have been protected from truth: but it was precious little of truth that was protected from her." G.K. CHESTERTON

She stiffened her resolve with a line of Eliot's verse: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.

While their fiscal views aren't mine, the moderates are the last reasonable voice in the current Republican Party.

Most people think that George Nelson, Charles Eames and Eliot Noyes invented industrial design. That is, of course, an exaggeration. George did it without any assistance from the other two.