George Eliot Quotes About Stupidity

• 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.

  George Eliot

  Air, Stupidity, Opinion

  George Eliot (2016). “The Mill On The Floss”, p.30, George Eliot

• Can anything be more disgusting than to hear people called 'educated' making small jokes about eating ham, and showing themselves empty of any real knowledge as to the relation of their own social and religious life to the history of the people they think themselves witty in insulting? [...] The best thing that can be said of it is, that it is a sign of the intellectual narrowness—in plain English, the stupidity which is still the average mark of our culture.

  George Eliot

  Witty, Religious, Real

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6957, Delphi Classics

• We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves

  George Eliot

  Self, Stupidity, World

  George Eliot (2007). “Middlemarch”, p.216, Collector's Library

• Blows are sarcasms turned stupid.

  George Eliot

  Stupid, Sarcasm, Blow

  George Eliot (2013). “The Complete Novels of George Eliot: Adam Bede + The Lifted Veil + The Mill on the Floss + Silas Marner + Romola + Brother Jacob + Felix Holt the Radical + Middlemarch + Daniel Deronda”, p.2215, e-artnow

• It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort of talent - like a carrier pigeon.

  George Eliot

  Clever, Stupidity, Pigeons

  George Eliot (2012). “The Mill on the Floss”, p.265, Courier Corporation

• To most mortals there is a stupidity which is unendurable and a stupidity which is altogether acceptable - else, indeed, what would become of social bonds?

  George Eliot

  Stupidity, Social, Unendurable

  George Eliot (2007). “Middlemarch”, p.579, Collector's Library

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