Quotes by Eliot, George

But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another >>

Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life can underst >>

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that th >>

Quotations about Careers

The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might ha >>

He was at a starting point which makes many a man's career a fine subj >>

Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career >>

He was at a starting point which makes many a man's career a fine subject for betting, if there were any gentlemen given to that amusement who could appreciate the complicated probabilities of an arduous purpose, with all the possible thwartings and furtherings of circumstance, all the niceties of inward balance, by which a man swings and makes his point or else is carried headlong.

Eliot, George