Quote by George Eliot
And when a womans will is as strong as the mans who wants to gover

And when a womans will is as strong as the mans who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment. – George Eliot

Other quotes by George Eliot

What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs? – George Eliot

Category:
Tragedy
Read Quote

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure. – George Eliot

Category:
Failure
Read Quote

For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities –a willing movement of a mans soul with the larger sweep of the worlds forces –a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life. – George Eliot

Category:
Illusion
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
strength
category

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time. – Anna Freud

Category:
strength

My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb. – Marge Piercy

Category:
strength

Weight-bearing exercise builds bone density, builds your muscular strength so that you can hold your body up where those bones have a tendency to get weak. – Ann Richards

Category:
strength

The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind. – Felix Frankfurter

Category:
strength

Random Quotes

We are more inclined to regret our virtues than our vices; but only the very honest will admit this. – Holbrook Jackson

Category:
Vices

If a man owns land, the land owns him. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Category:
Property

Topographically the country is magnificent — and terrifying. Why terrifying? Because nowhere else in the world is the divorce between man and nature so complete. Nowhere have I encountered such a dull, monotonous fabric of life as here in America. Here boredom reaches its peak. – Henry Miller

Category:
Land

I like to sing ballads the way Eddie Fisher does and the way Perry Como does. But the way Im singing now is what makes the money. – Elvis Presley

Category:
Money