Quote by George Eliot
It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfa

It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because ones own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care. – George Eliot

Other quotes by George Eliot

To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candor never waited to be asked for its opinion. – George Eliot

Category:
Sincerity
Read Quote

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope. – George Eliot

Category:
great
Read Quote

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy. – George Eliot

Category:
Experience
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Vanity
category

Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies. – Miguel de Cervantes

Category:
Vanity

Gray hair is a sign of age, not of wisdom. – Proverb

Category:
Vanity

They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid. – Ambrose Bierce

Category:
Vanity

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt. – Benjamin Franklin

Category:
Vanity

Random Quotes

A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably. – William Penn

Category:
Friendship

I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me. – Anna Quindlen

Category:
Change

The Jews greatest contribution to history is dissatisfaction! Were a nation born to be discontented. Whatever exists we believe can be changed for the better. – Shimon Peres

Category:
History

Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it. – Woody Allen

Category:
Love