All GEORGE ELIOT Quotes about “Opinions”

“If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.”
“A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.”
“I've had my say out, and I shall be the' easier for't all my life. There's no pleasure i' living, if you're to be corked up forever, and only dribble your mind out by the sly, like a leaky barrel.”
“Who can know how much of his most inward life is made up of the thoughts he believes other men to have about him, until that fabric of opinion is threatened with ruin?”
“Surely, surely the only one true knowledge of our fellow man is that which enables us to feel with him--which gives us a fine ear for the heart-pulses that are beating under the mere clothes of circumstance and opinion.”
“The floods of nonsense printed in the form of critical opinions seem to me a chief curse of the times, a chief obstacle to true culture.”
“The human soul is hospitable, and will entertain conflicting sentiments and contradictory opinions with much impartiality.”
“It is always chilling, in friendly intercourse, to say you have no opinion to give.”
“To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candor never waited to be asked for its opinion.”
“Opinions: men's thoughts about great subjects. Taste: their thoughts about small ones: dress, behavior, amusements, ornaments.”

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