George Eliot Form Quotations

The sense of an entailed disadvantage -- the deformed foot doubtfully hidden by the shoe, makes a restlessly active spiritual yeast, and easily turns a self-centered, unloving nature into an Ishmaelite. But in the rarer sort, who presently see their own frustrated claim as one among a myriad, the inexorable sorrow takes the form of fellowship and makes the imagination tender.

Prophecy is the most gratuitous form of error.

Wit is a form of force that leaves the limbs at rest.

The intensest form of hatred is that rooted in fear.

... it is because sympathy is but a living again through our own past in a new form, that confession often prompts a response of confession.

Of all forms of human error, prophesy is the most avoidable.

Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.