Famous quotes by Authors

"I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence"

Frederick Douglass, Author

"Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them"

Frederick Douglass, Author

"A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him"

Frederick Douglass, Author

"A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people"

Frederick Douglass, Author

"A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me"

Frederick Douglass, Author

"A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it"

Frederick Douglass, Author

"Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress"

George Eliot, Author

"Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down"

George Eliot, Author

"The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision"

George Eliot, Author

"The only failure one should fear is not hugging to the purpose they see as best"

George Eliot, Author

"When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity"

George Eliot, Author

"There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms"

George Eliot, Author

"No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty"

George Eliot, Author

"No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from"

George Eliot, Author

"Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder"

George Eliot, Author

"Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty"

George Eliot, Author

"If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence"

George Eliot, Author

"I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out?"

George Eliot, Author

"Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster"

George Eliot, Author

"Consequences are unpitying"

George Eliot, Author

"Breed is stronger than pasture"

George Eliot, Author

"Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another"

George Eliot, Author

"Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms"

George Eliot, Author

"An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down"

George Eliot, Author

"All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other"

George Eliot, Author

"Adventure is not outside man; it is within"

George Eliot, Author

"A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger; else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe"

George Eliot, Author

"Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author

"Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author

"Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author

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