All GEORGE ELIOT Quotes about “Lying”

“People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool's caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else's are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.”
“I care only to know, if possible, the lasting meaning that lies in all religious doctrine from the beginning till now.”
“There is no short-cut no patent tram-road, to wisdom. After all the centuries of invention, the soul's path lies through the thorny wilderness which must still be trodden in solitude, with bleeding feet, with sobs for help, as it was trodden by them of old time.”
“A man never lies with more delicious languor under the influence of a passion than when he has persuaded himself that he shall subdue it to-morrow.”
“Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?”
“The strength of the donkey mind lies in adopting a course inversely as the arguments urged, which, well considered, requires as great a mental force as the direct sequence.”
“A woman's rank Lies in the fulness of her womanhood: Therein alone she is royal.”
“Particular lies may speak a general truth.”
“Ah! but the moods lie in his nature, my boy, just as much as his reflections did, and more. A man can never do anything at variance with his own nature. He carries within him the germ of his most exceptional action; and if we wise people make eminent fools of ourselves on any particular occasion, we must endure the legitimate conclusion that we carry a few grains of folly to our ounce of wisdom.”
“The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.”

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