George Eliot Quotes About Appearance

• Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.

  George Eliot

  Faith, Errors, Feelings

  George Eliot (2004). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.640, Broadview Press

• Nature has the deep cunning which hides itself under the appearance of openness, so that simple people think they can see through her quite well, and all the while she is secretly preparing a refutation of their confident prophecies.

  George Eliot

  Thinking, Simple, People

  George Eliot (2012). “The Mill on the Floss”, p.23, Courier Corporation

• To superficial observers his chin had too vanishing an aspect, looking as if it were being gradually reabsorbed. And it did indeed cause him some difficulty about the fit of his satin stocks, for which chins were at that time useful.

  George Eliot

  Causes, Vanishing, Fit

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.182, Penguin

• Appearances have very little to do with happiness.

  George Eliot

  Littles, Appearance

  George Eliot (1873). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life. By George Eliot ....”, p.253

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