Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.
Quote by George Eliot
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Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.
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George Eliot Quotes
- Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
- Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
- Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.
- Teach us to care and not to care. Teach us to sit still.
- I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.
- I do not believe that any writer has ever exposed this bovaryisme, the human will to see things as they are not, more clearly than Shakespeare.
- Can any man or woman choose duties? No more that they can choose their birthplace, or their father or mother.
- The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
- Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
- Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.
Best Quotes
- I've been involved with violent movies, and then I've also said at a certain point, 'I can't take it anymore. Please cut it.' You know, you've got to respect the filmmaker, and it's a really tough issue.
- I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.
- People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly clearly. Periodic famines are due to too many people living on land that can't sustain them.
- At the end of the day it's got to be a good movie, it's got to be a funny movie, and it's got to make people think, 'Hey, I couldn't have spent my time any better.'
- We'll support the government on issues if it's essential to the country but our primary responsibility is not to prop up the government, our responsibility is to provide an opposition and an alternative government for Parliament and for Canadians.
- The political system is broken, the economy is broken and so is society. That is why people are so depressed about the state of our country.
- Home base is the support system where we have a culinary team, my own writers because of the shows and the books and stuff, we have a culinary team of about six people. Marketing, public relations, accounting and all that sort of stuff.
- Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow talent to the dark place where it leads.
- Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!
- The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.