Quotes by Eliot, George

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history. >>

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest. >>

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social o >>

Quotations about Disability

The invalid is a parasite on society. In a certain state it is indecen >>

The sense of an entailed disadvantage -- the deformed foot doubtfully >>

I have often been asked, Do not people bore you? I do not understand q >>

The sense of an entailed disadvantage -- the deformed foot doubtfully hidden by the shoe, makes a restlessly active spiritual yeast, and easily turns a self-centered, unloving nature into an Ishmaelite. But in the rarer sort, who presently see their own frustrated claim as one among a myriad, the inexorable sorrow takes the form of fellowship and makes the imagination tender.

Eliot, George