Quotes about Eliot

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Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. — Jane Austen, Persuasion
Immature poets imitate — mature poets steal.
Adventure is not outside man — it is within.
It is a common sentence that knowledge is power — but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
A really cultured woman, like a really cultured man, is all the simpler and the less obtrusive for her knowledge; it has — George Eliot, Silly Novels by Lady Novelists
I think we are in rats’ alley — Where the dead men lost their bones.
Hesitate once, hesitate twice, hesitate a hundred times before employing political standards as a device for the analysi — Christopher Hitchens, Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere
It might be said of Miss [Djuna] Barnes,” [T.S. Eliot] wrote, “who is incontestably one of the most original writers of — Ross Wetzsteon, Republic of Dreams: Greenwich Village: The American Bohemia 1910-1960
If Art does not enlarge men’s sympathies, it does nothing morally. — George Eliot
It would be narrowness to suppose that an artist can only care for the impressions of those who know the methods of his — Gordon S. Haight, Selections from George Eliot's Letters
I don't know much about gods, but I think the river is a strong, brown god — T.S. Eliot
Pride helps us — and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts—not to hurt others.
More than anything, I began to hate women writers. Frances Burney, Jane Austen, Elizabeth Browning, Mary Shelley, George — Catherine Lowell, The Madwoman Upstairs
Becoming me was the greatest creative project of my life. — Lev Grossman, The Magicians
I am not imposed upon by fine words — I can see what actions mean.
You are not here to verify,instruct yourself, or inform curiosityor carry report. You are here to kneelwhere prayer has — T. S. Eliot
I am alive to a usual objection to what is clearly part of my programme for the metier of poetry. The objection is that — T.S. Eliot
But the same spirits of analogy will authorise me to assert that ours are the most tender. Man is more robust than woman — Jane Austen, Persuasion
Will the veiled sister pray for Those who walk in darkness, who chose thee and oppose thee, Those who are torn on the ho — T.S. Eliot
Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug — but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm.