George Eliot Distance Quotations

That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow.

Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance!

Looking at your life as a debt may seem the dreariest view of things at a distance; but it cannot really be so. What makes life dreary is the want of motive; but once beginning to act with the penitential, loving purpose you have in your mind, there will be unexpected satisfactions--there will be newly-opening needs--continually coming to carry you on from day to day. You will find your life growing like a plant.

People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes ...

... we all know the wag's definition of a philanthropist: a man whose charity increases directly as the square of the distance.