Quote by George Eliot
Blows are sarcasms turned stupid. - George Eliot

Blows are sarcasms turned stupid. – George Eliot

Other quotes by George Eliot

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other? – George Eliot

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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity. – George Eliot

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Im a hopeful cynic. – Tracy Chapman

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Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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A cynic is a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, and not as they ought to be. – Ambrose Bierce

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A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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