George Eliot Quotes

Girls are soft and pretty.

I'm a girly girl. I'm strong, but I'm very timid. Very dainty.

I'm the girliest girl you'll ever meet.

Using these toolkits is like trying to make a bookshelf out of mashed potatoes.

The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.

… a whippersnapper …. He never said a word of importance in the Senate and he never did a thing.

The more education you do, the less you are capable of doing.

I think I've cornered the market at playing ineffectual. I think I'm quite accomplished at it.

I like my girls delicate.

I had turned into a trophy wife - and I sucked at it. I wasn't detail-oriented enough to maintain a perfect house or be a perfect hostess. I could no longer hide my boredom when the men talked and the women smiled and listened. I wasn't interested in Botox or makeup or reducing the appearance of the scars from my C-sections.

House Republicans are flimsier than toilet paper, except toilet paper actually has use. They're so pathetic.

I feel like cotton candy: sugar and air. Squeeze me and I’d turn into a small sickly damp wad of weeping pinky-red.

When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,' Epictetus replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!’.

Her body was wrapped in shadows like moth wings, like rose-petals.

Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.

He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.

Mediocre people have an answer for everything and are astonished at nothing. They always want to have the air of knowing better than you what you are going to tell them; when, in their turn, they begin to speak, they repeat to you with the greatest confidence, as if dealing with their own property, the things that they have heard you say yourself at some other place. A capable and superior look is the natural accompaniment of this type of character.

What is peace? Balance three iron skewers tip to tip, one upon the other; at the summit, emplace and egg, so that it too poises static in mid-air, and there you have the condition of peace in this world of men.

That’s what she was, Joanna felt suddenly. That’s what they all were, all the Stepford wives: actresses in commercials, pleased with detergents and floor wax, with cleansers, shampoos, and deodorants. Pretty actresses, big in the bosom but small in the talent, playing housewives unconvincingly, too nicey-nice to be real.

You look too pretty to be useful." "Truer words were never spoken.

You couldn't shoot a fart out of your own ass!

She was made of flesh and eyelashes.

You can put on as many airs as you want, but in the end, that dress is the same as you: an old, cheap design dressed up to look like its worth more than it is.

An appearance of delicacy, and even fragility, is almost essential to beauty.

Are not beauty and delicacy the same?