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

Blows are sarcasms turned stupid. – George Eliot

Other quotes by George Eliot

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory. – George Eliot

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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity. – George Eliot

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More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us. – George Eliot

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

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It is difficult not to write satire. – Juvenal

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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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The cynics are right nine times out of ten. – H. L. Mencken

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Faith is never identical with piety. – Karl Barth

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When youre passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection. – Debra Messing

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The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of clichés. – H.L. Mencken, Prejudices, 1925

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