The fact is unalterable, that a fellow-mortal with whose nature you are acquainted solely through the brief entrances and exits of a few imaginative weeks called courtship, may, when seen in the continuity of married companionship, be disclosed as something better or worse than what you have preconceived, but will certainly not appear altogether the same.
("Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life")
More Quotes from George Eliot:
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.George Eliot
Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
George Eliot
Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
George Eliot
. . . his soul was sensitive without being enthusiastic it was too languid to thrill out of self-consciousness into passionate delight it went on fluttering in the swampy ground where it was hatched, thinking of its wings and never flying.
George Eliot
Self-confidence is apt to address itself to an imaginary dullness in others as people who are well off speak in a cajoling tone to the poor.
George Eliot
The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentlemen whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes.
George Eliot
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Facts Quotes, Friendship Quotes, Romantic Love QuotesBased on Keywords: fellow-mortal
And looking at today's music scene, I think it's cool that there are a lot of consumers and fans not limited by what radio and the record companies tell them to buy.
Juice Newton
If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.
Niels Bohr
Stepping up a gear during any race is not an easy thing to do.
Michael East