Quote by George Eliot
Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand. - George Eliot

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand. – George Eliot

Other quotes by George Eliot

There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength is often only another name for willing bondage to irremediable weakness. – George Eliot

Category:
Slavery
Read Quote

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

Category:
Wisdom
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Expectation
category

I would not anticipate the relish of any happiness, nor feel the weight of any misery, before it actually arrives. – Anon.

Category:
Expectation

Everything comes if a man will only wait. – Benjamin Disraeli

Category:
Expectation

In order to win, you must expect to win. – Richard Bach

Category:
Expectation

Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation. – Charlotte Bronte

Category:
Expectation

Random Quotes

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love. – Margaret Atwood

Category:
Love

Poetry,—the language of the Imagination and the Passions,—the oldest and most beauteous offspring of Literature. – Frederick Hinde, Poetry, a lecture delivered in London on the evening of April 8

Category:
Poetry

Ive seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who cant find a home. – Laura Linney

Category:
Home

Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully – love, lust, longing joy, rage, fear triumph, yearning and confusion. – Tony Snow

Category:
Fear