Eliot

Famous quotes containing the word eliot:

    ... we are most of us brought up in the notion that the highest motive for not doing a wrong is something irrespective of the beings who would suffer the wrong.
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    Death is the king of this world: ‘tis his park
    Where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain
    Are music for his banquet
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)