Quote by George Eliot
Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond

Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us. – George Eliot

Other quotes by George Eliot

The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief. – George Eliot

Category:
Ego
Read Quote

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

The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character. – George Eliot

Category:
Example
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Infatuation
category

Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me. – John Donne

Category:
Infatuation

He in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, by a timely compliance, prevented him. – Henry Fielding

Category:
Infatuation

I stalk about her door like a strange soul upon the Stygian banks staying for wattage. – William Shakespeare

Category:
Infatuation

There arent many irritations to match the condescension which a woman metes out to a man who she believes has loved her vainly for the past umpteen years. – Edward Hoagland

Category:
Infatuation

Random Quotes

Lo! Men have become the tools of their tools. – Henry David Thoreau

Category:
Technology

If you get all the facts, your judgment can be right; if you dont get all the facts, it cant be right. – Bernard Baruch

Category:
Facts

Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times. – Richard Rogers

Category:
architecture

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read. – Thomas Jefferson

Category:
Religion